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edited, curtailed: The magazine published a cut version of the
novel. 28 reduced, diminished, lowered, discounted: This shop
sells everything at cut prices. 29 cut and dried. a clear-cut,
settled, arranged, decided, predetermined, prearranged:
Unfortunately, the solution to this problem is not cut and
dried. b stale, unoriginal, trite, hackneyed, old; dull,
boring: His suggestions for improvement are always cut and
dried. c manufactured, automatic, unchanging, unchanged: Mr
Mackay will again present his old cut and dried plan.
cute adj. 1 pretty, attractive, adorable, dainty, lovely, beautiful,
Colloq US cunning: There were a lot of cute children at the
beauty competition. 2 clever, shrewd, ingenious, adroit,
crafty, cunning: It was very cute of him to suggest his brother
for the job.
cutthroat n. 1 murderer, pirate, killer, thug, hatchet man, gunman,
assassin, Slang US gunsel, torpedo, hit man: Those streets are
frequented by thieves and cutthroats.
--adj. 2 merciless, ruthless, unmerciful, unprincipled,
relentless, pitiless, brutal, cold-blooded, cold-hearted: Her
cutthroat tactics call for dismissing all executives. 3
murderous, homicidal, lethal, deadly, barbaric, fierce, cruel,
barbarous, savage, inhuman, brutal, brutish, violent, ferocious,
bloodthirsty, sanguinary, bloody, feral, vicious, truculent: He
was once a member of a gang of cutthroat hoodlums.
cutting adj. 1 severe, biting, chill, cold, icy, frigid, freezing, raw,
piercing, penetrating: A cutting wind seemed to go right
through me. 2 sarcastic, sardonic, bitter, scornful, sneering,
acid, scathing, acerb(ic), wounding, stern, harsh, caustic,
mordant, acrimonious, contemptuous; malevolent, malicious,
invidious, vicious, venomous: Her cutting remarks completely
devastated me.
--n. 3 scion, slip, clipping: Mrs Galloway allowed me to take
a cutting from her rose bush.
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