The soldiers were pitiless toward their enemy.
gave the beggar in the street a pitiless look and kept on walking
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Each failure rekindled the gravitational pull of an existential, pitiless struggle.—Hussein Agha, New Yorker, 22 Aug. 2025 From Hollywood's Golden Age and the '70s catastrophe obsession to today, these films have unearthed every pitiless corner of nature's wrath, from towering tsunamis and viral pandemics to all-out apocalypses and more.—Ew Staff Published, EW.com, 3 July 2025 Gilroy drew upon his lifelong study of historical revolutions to inform the show’s interweaving storylines of payroll heists and gulag escapes, street riots and false flag operations, squabbling freedom fighters and pitiless secret police.—Adam B. Vary, Variety, 13 May 2025 Her loss unleashed Twain’s anger at pitiless fate, and his relationships with his two surviving daughters became increasingly estranged.—Mary Ann Gwinn, Los Angeles Times, 9 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for pitiless
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