A way to easily delete contacts??

Hi there friends,
I have synced my phone and I have hundreds of contacts that I dont need!.
Is there a way to delete one by one, but not going to each on and scrolling down to the edit button?
Thanks for your time..
Chris

The built-in help for Contacts has this to say:
Important: If you're syncing contacts with Google Contacts and you add an iCloud account, Google syncing is turned off. It’s recommended to keep it turned off while using the iCloud Contacts service.

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