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pitiless
[ pit-i-lis, pit-ee- ]
adjective
- feeling or showing no pity; merciless:
pitiless criticism of his last novel.
Synonyms: relentless, implacable, unmerciful
Antonyms: merciful
pitiless
/ ˈpɪtɪlɪs /
adjective
- having or showing little or no pity or mercy
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Derived Forms
- ˈpitilessly, adverb
- ˈpitilessness, noun
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Other Words From
- piti·less·ly adverb
- piti·less·ness noun
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Example Sentences
And his pitiless beliefs would be no stranger to the political discourse of today.
Efficiency may seem a pitiless term to use but it does have meaning.
I shall bring him forth and shine on him the pitiless light of history.
If they complained, they received a no doubt well-deserved and pitiless beating.
We thus remember Portnoy, impaling with pitiless thrusts invasive mothers, plugged-up fathers, dizzying shikses in heat.
Whenever she was unhappy she felt herself at bay against a pitiless world, and a kind of animal secretiveness possessed her.
She heard the sound of the snow crunching under a heavy step, and knew that the pitiless spy was on her track.
Now an artist who feels restraint is pitiless; he stays away, or laughs it to scorn.
Princes, magistrates, and judges become inhuman and pitiless as soon as there is a question of the interests of religion.
He gave up praying to the pitiless, who could look down and laugh at his death-agony, and he cried upon the absent only.
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