The soldiers were pitiless toward their enemy.
gave the beggar in the street a pitiless look and kept on walking
Recent Examples on the WebNotably, the most prominent object on that nightstand isn’t a book but an iPhone, whose alarm goes off at 5:50 A.M., jolting Angela out of a few hours’ slumber and into the pitiless glare of a new day.—Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 22 Mar. 2024 Especially among the famous and those slouching toward fame’s pitiless spotlight.—Robin Givhan, Washington Post, 12 Mar. 2024 His family and allies have otherwise been annihilated by a rival aristocratic house called the Harkonnens, a hairless, pitiless cadre of fascists.—David Sims, The Atlantic, 28 Feb. 2024 William, however, still bears the scars of the pitiless coverage of his mother, Diana, Princess of Wales, which ended with her death in a car accident in Paris in 1997, pursued by the paparazzi.—Mark Landler, New York Times, 7 Feb. 2024 That unlucky sojourner happens to be the one person here that otherwise pitiless Adem cannot bear losing.—Dennis Harvey, Variety, 5 Feb. 2024 No one can walk the bridge without respect, holding on carefully
to the ropes on either side,
aware of the beauty
and the depths and rocks,
the pitiless desert all around.—Ben Okri, The New York Review of Books, 18 Jan. 2024 The Nobel-winning poet was pitiless to herself, yet fiercely generous toward her students.—Amy X. Wang, New York Times, 22 Dec. 2023 The abolition of a pitiless world through pitilessness.—Rumaan Alam, The New Republic, 21 June 2023
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