Characteristic of a desire to prevail at any cost.(adjective)
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Use "scorched-earth" in a sentence
"Community Health called Tenet's federal lawsuit baseless and proof of the company's "scorched-earth defense" against the takeover bid."
""If that doesn't illustrate the scorched-earth nature of litigation tactics on Rule 2019, I don't know what does," said Elliot Ganz , general counsel at the Loan Syndications and Trading Association, a group that lobbied to limit the breadth of the new disclosure rule."
"To make the situation worse, little food or fodder was available in a land that had suffered the scorched-earth policy of Bessus."