pitiless
feeling or showing no pity; merciless: pitiless criticism of his last novel.
Origin of pitiless
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Other words for pitiless
Opposites for pitiless
Other words from pitiless
- pit·i·less·ly, adverb
- pit·i·less·ness, noun
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How to use pitiless in a sentence
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.
Blood and War: The Hard Truth About ‘Boots on the Ground’ | Clive Irving | September 22, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTI 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.
Summer | Edith WhartonShe heard the sound of the snow crunching under a heavy step, and knew that the pitiless spy was on her track.
An Episode Under the Terror | Honore de BalzacNow an artist who feels restraint is pitiless; he stays away, or laughs it to scorn.
At the Sign of the Cat and Racket | Honore de BalzacPrinces, magistrates, and judges become inhuman and pitiless as soon as there is a question of the interests of religion.
Letters To Eugenia | Paul Henri Thiry HolbachHe gave up praying to the pitiless, who could look down and laugh at his death-agony, and he cried upon the absent only.
It Is Never Too Late to Mend | Charles Reade
British Dictionary definitions for pitiless
/ (ˈpɪtɪlɪs) /
having or showing little or no pity or mercy
Derived forms of pitiless
- pitilessly, adverb
- pitilessness, noun
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