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cut-throat
noun as in killer
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They're not about amassing medals, so much as engendering goodwill; less cut-throat competition, more track and fealty.
Fashion is vicious and cut throat—and if you really love it (and want to succeed) it can be downright maddening.
She holds a PhD in English and worked her way through the cut-throat art world.
"Tell the Rajah and his Chinese cut-throat that we'll have the pleasure of hanging them," was Carver's reply.
He, from his condemned cell, demanded justice for wronged innocence in the accents of a detected cut-throat.
This doubtless tended to eliminate cut-throat competition and thus stabilize the industry.
For labor the combination of cut-throat competition among employers with the new machine technique brought serious consequences.
To take up your abode in a little cut-throat hole like this and not to take the commonest precaution!
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On this page you'll find 17 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to cut-throat, such as: assassin, butcher, executioner, exterminator, hunter, and slayer.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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