Qualities
Synonyms for ruthless
One audited sense, one true synonym, and three words that come close enough to cost you the rung.
without mercy or pity
An act of ruthless ferocity.
The true synonym
pitiless
Same sentence, swapped: An act of pitiless ferocity.
Close but different
These are the other three tiles the game puts on screen for this sense. Each one is a real word with a real meaning, and none of them is a synonym for ruthless as it is used in the sentence above.
- brute
- severe
- sadistic
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