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Ruthless vs Stinky - What's the difference?

ruthless | stinky |

As adjectives the difference between ruthless and stinky

is that ruthless is without pity or compassion; cruel, pitiless while stinky is (slang) having a strong, unpleasant smell; stinking.

ruthless

English

Adjective

(wikipedia ruthless) (en adjective)
  • Without pity or compassion; cruel, pitiless.
  • * 1725 , , Volume I, Bernard Lintot, page 10:
    • At length their rage the ho?tile Pow’rs re?train, / All but the ruthle?s Monarch of the Main.

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    stinky

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • (slang) Having a strong, unpleasant smell; stinking.
  • (slang) Bad, undesirable.
  • * 1991, Theresa P. Gladden, Romancing Susan ,[http://books.google.com/books?id=e-NgFsYD8vEC] Bantam Books, ISBN 055344123X, page 37,
    • […] she walked over to the table and switched off the Walkman as she sat down.
    “Hey!” Nikki yelped. “That was a stinky thing to do. That was my favorite song.”
  • * 2003, Betty Levin, Shoddy Cove ,[http://books.google.com/books?id=KsSG2j82PJAC] HarperCollins, ISBN 0-06-052272-0, page 151,
    • “School all year round.” The father groaned. “What a good idea.”
    “Stupid, stinky idea,” a child remarked from across the room.
  • * 2007, Aletha V. Smithson, “Pacifier Breaking” (poem), in As He Was Known ,[http://books.google.com/books?id=8BzMlduE8R8C] AuthorHouse, ISBN 1-4259-7805-3, page 172,
    • The binky drifted up and far away,
    To the man in the moon, I heard them say;
    A cute idea but a rotten stinky plan.