Synonyms of pitiless
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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The food chain is in full and pitiless effect, and no one bats an eye, or side-eyes a bat, when natural predatory impulses kick in.
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Justin Chang, New Yorker, 6 Mar. 2026
The scene offers a pitiless view of the sexism, and materialism, of the culture in which the girls were being raised.
—Mark Oppenheimer, Vulture, 25 Feb. 2026
Biel is a pitiless cokehead who, we’re told, later marries a senator and has four kids.
—Ky Henderson, Rolling Stone, 15 Feb. 2026
In his experiences and chronicles of the great ideological battles of the twentieth century, Curzio Malaparte was a shape-shifter—pitiless, clinical, cynical, unsentimental, indifferent to morality and idealism.
—Leah Downey, The New York Review of Books, 7 Feb. 2026
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Justin Chang, New Yorker, 6 Mar. 2026
The scene offers a pitiless view of the sexism, and materialism, of the culture in which the girls were being raised.
—Mark Oppenheimer, Vulture, 25 Feb. 2026
Biel is a pitiless cokehead who, we’re told, later marries a senator and has four kids.
—Ky Henderson, Rolling Stone, 15 Feb. 2026
In his experiences and chronicles of the great ideological battles of the twentieth century, Curzio Malaparte was a shape-shifter—pitiless, clinical, cynical, unsentimental, indifferent to morality and idealism.
—Leah Downey, The New York Review of Books, 7 Feb. 2026
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“Pitiless.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pitiless. Accessed 14 Mar. 2026.
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pitiless
adjective
piti·less
ˈpit-i-ləs 
ˈpit-ᵊl-əs
pitilessly
adverb
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