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cutthroat

/kuht-throht/US // ˈkʌtˌθroʊt //

杀人犯,杀人不眨眼,杀人狂,杀人魔

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a person who cuts the throat of another; a murderer.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : murderous.
    • : ruthless: cutthroat competition.
    • : pertaining to a game, as of cards, in which each of three or more persons acts and scores as an individual.

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Examples

  • Enterprise sites have to face cutthroat competition at every stage, particularly from brands with sophisticated SEO strategies.

  • He is on a mission to find something hidden, and along the way joins forces with cutthroat attorney Hong Cha-Young.

  • That might not sound like much, but few things compare with having a 20-inch cutthroat on the end of your line, letting him make a few runs, fighting the urge to rush him to the net while not playing him too long.

  • The move downmarket seems like an admission the company can't—or doesn't want to—compete in the cutthroat premium-smartphone market.

  • The normally cutthroat media industry has — in some ways, at least — been feeling a little less competitive for the past few months for top publishers.

  • It was a cutthroat move from investors, hard-pressed to turn a profit on a film that was a domestic disappointment.

  • The casting process for fashion shows is notoriously cutthroat and can be humiliating for young models.

  • The  Silicon Valley tech firms tend to be  every bit as cutthroat and greedy as any capitalist enterprise before it.

  • First impressions are tough to eradicate—especially in the cutthroat world of Hollywood.

  • On the lake a cutthroat trout breaks the surface; pieces of it follow him into the air.

  • I might have guessed that in some such cutthroat manner would your vaunt of winning me at the sword-point be accomplished.

  • The captain had a hard story to tell, and he offered five hundred dollars to any one who would shoot this bloody cutthroat.

  • Knowing the cutthroat's recklessness and his almost insane thirst for blood, he feared that this might happen.

  • We can deal with that old buzzard as freely and as profitably as if we were in a cutthroat pawnshop.

  • I went fishing, and in the first pool of the river below the upper lake, caught several two- and three-pound cutthroat trout.