Bad and Ruthless

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Bad adjective - Falling short of a standard.

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Ruthless and bad are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Ruthless" instead an adjective "Bad".

Nearby Words: badly, badness

Ruthless adjective - Having or showing a lack of sympathy or tender feelings.

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Bad and ruthless are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Bad" instead an adjective "Ruthless".

Nearby Words: ruthlessly, ruth

Affably Evil: Tae-goo doesn't seem all that bad until you realise that he was once a ruthless serial mutilator.

Source: Film / The Good, the Bad, the Weird
This is both good and bad, as while it reduces the number of Agonoids, it also means that by natural selection the most ruthless of a race already known for being incredibly ruthless survive.

Source: Literature / Red Dwarf
She's not really bad but her ruthless effort to climb the ladder at CTU bordered on treason.

Source: Evil Counterpart / Live-Action TV

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