cutthroat
cutthroat
Definition
cut·throat (kut′t̸hrōt′)
noun
a person who cuts throats; murderer
adjective
- murderous
- merciless; ruthless
- ☆ played by persons competing as individuals rather than with partners, as some forms of bridge or pinochle
cutthroat
Synonyms
cutthroat
Synonyms
cutthroat
Usage Examples
Modifies a noun
- competition: You too can take advantage of this cutthroat competition to get the desired loan package.
- world: Always a good thing in the cutthroat world of entertainment.
- industry: His company's ultimate failure says more about a cutthroat industry than about the quality of Kaplan's product.
- business: And both have survived, if not thrived, the last 20 years in the cutthroat business of fashion.
- market: There's a cutthroat market out there for directory inquiries, and other companies numbers don't work from BT call boxes.
- trout: The cutthroat trout were big, wild, and free rising - just like it's supposed to be.
Modifying Another Word
- increasingly: By now a legend in television history, Weaver became increasingly critical of the increasingly cutthroat and commercial nature of US broadcasting.
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