Examples of pitiless in a Sentence
The soldiers were pitiless toward their enemy.
gave the beggar in the street a pitiless look and kept on walking
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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.
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Ew Staff Published, EW.com, 3 July 2025
They were born out of a pitiless epidemic, as a poignant yet futile attempt to allow his subjects to live forever on film.
—Chris Wiley, New Yorker, 28 June 2025
The title, in Muslim eschatology, refers to a narrow bridge between Paradise and Hell, which is fitting, insofar as Laxe’s movie is both a nightmarish experience and an exhilarating one—a pitiless ordeal that is nonetheless underpinned by extraordinary love and tenderness.
—Justin Chang, New Yorker, 26 May 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
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Ew Staff Published, EW.com, 3 July 2025
They were born out of a pitiless epidemic, as a poignant yet futile attempt to allow his subjects to live forever on film.
—Chris Wiley, New Yorker, 28 June 2025
The title, in Muslim eschatology, refers to a narrow bridge between Paradise and Hell, which is fitting, insofar as Laxe’s movie is both a nightmarish experience and an exhilarating one—a pitiless ordeal that is nonetheless underpinned by extraordinary love and tenderness.
—Justin Chang, New Yorker, 26 May 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
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“Pitiless.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pitiless. Accessed 11 Jul. 2025.
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pitiless
adjective
piti·less
ˈpit-i-ləs 
ˈpit-ᵊl-əs
pitilessly
adverb
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