Mercilessness characterized by a lack of pity

Usage examples of ruthlessness.

Even in the exigency of the moment, Jim felt awed by her ruthlessness.

Although the rumors Derian had heard about Grand Duke Gadman and Lord Rolfston credited them with everything from courage to ruthlessness, they were as nothing compared to what was whispered about Lady Melina Shield.

Madness had transformed his bland, geeky features into a writhing mask of power-hungry ruthlessness seldom seen outside a Jonny Quest cartoon.

There was a gharial beneath that deceptively calm surfacean ancient reptilian creature whose ferocity and ruthlessness belied the surface calm.

Zar might have forgotten his inherent ruthlessness where his feathered informer was concerned, had not Kaw become a trifle too insistent in his exhortations to action.

Stealthy horror and disease lurk within the weather-blackened, moss-crusted, and elm-shadowed walls of the archaic dwelling so vividly displayed, and we grasp the brooding malignity of the place when we read that its builder -- old Colonel Pyncheon -- snatched the land with peculiar ruthlessness from its original settler, Matthew Maule, whom he condemned to the gallows as a wizard in the year of the panic.

She was famous for many things, her three husbands, her stable of male concubines, the ruthlessness and cleverness that had kept her alive and in power for decades.

But by betraying the Order and joining forces with Calbyr and his men, the Child of Amarid had exhibited a ruthlessness that Calbyr respected.

Carden was but a boy then, only a year past his Determining, but already Brail saw in him signs of the quick temper and ruthlessness that would characterize his reign.

Such was the demand for his Vitebsk theme, and the ruthlessness with which Chagall exploited it, that critics accused him of merchandizing his own exotica as art.

He was a senior specialist in chicanery and cajolery, trained to the incisive efficiency and boldness that characterized Dagenham Couriers and reflected the ruthlessness of its founder.

The troops of A Company, Hammers personal guard, were picked as much for technical skills as they were for ruthlessness and lethality--qualities which were not in short supply in the line companies either.

Even in a society that prized ruthlessness, Ryoval was a man whom other Jacksonian power-brokers stepped wide around.

If you had any doubts about the ruthlessness of your associate Rupert Juneau, remember that fact.

Leorsabout their patterned skin and inability to produce body heat, and their insistence on virgin mates, not to mention their fierceness and cruelty and utter ruthlessness.