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Ruthless, a 1948 film starring Zachary Scott; Ruthless, a 2023 film starring Dermot Mulroney; Ruthless: Scientology, My Son David Miscavige, and Me, a 2016 book by Ron Miscavige and Dan Koon; Ruthless, a Pretty Little Liars novel by Sara Shepard; Ruthless (TV series), TV series premiered 2020, by Tyler Perry
A ruthless monarch who believes that might makes right, and that he is worthy of ruling the entire world. He orders the systematic genocide of conquered nations because he believes their grudges would be the seeds of rebellion, and began his coup d'état against his father and brother by slaughtering everyone who supported the latter.
Collins English Dictionary (3rd edition) defines slang as "Vocabulary, idiom etc that is not appropriate to the standard form of a language or to formal contexts, may be restricted as to social status or distribution, and is characteristically more metaphorical and transitory than standard language".
Thesaurus Linguae Latinae. A modern english thesaurus. A thesaurus (pl.: thesauri or thesauruses), sometimes called a synonym dictionary or dictionary of synonyms, is a reference work which arranges words by their meanings (or in simpler terms, a book where one can find different words with similar meanings to other words), [1] [2] sometimes as a hierarchy of broader and narrower terms ...
The figurative sense of the English word juggernaut, as a merciless, destructive, and unstoppable force, became common in the mid-nineteenth century. Mary Shelley used the term in her novel The Last Man, published in 1826, to describe the plague: "like Juggernaut, she proceeds crushing out the being of all who strew the high road of life".
Conceiving that such a compilation might help to supply my own deficiencies, I had, in the year 1805, completed a classed catalogue of words on a small scale, but on the same principle, and nearly in the same form, as the Thesaurus now published. [4] Roget's Thesaurus is composed of six primary classes. [5]
According to the National Museum of the American Indian, the word "served to justify the taking of Native lands, sometimes by treaty and other times through coercion or conquest". [3] During the 16th century, the noble savage, a romanticized literary archetype, emerged in Western anthropology, philosophy, and literature. The stock character ...
Merciless (band), a Swedish metal band; Merciless (DJ), Jamaican dancehall DJ Leonard Bartley (born 1971) Merciless (Body Count album), a 2024 album by Body Count; Merciless (Stephanie Mills album), a 1983 album by Stephanie Mills; Merciless, a 1994 EP by Godflesh; Merciless, a 2003 album by Merciless; Merciless, a 2005 album by Most Precious Blood