pitiless

piti·less | \ ˈpi-ti-ləs

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Definition of pitiless

: devoid of pity : harsh, cruel

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The soldiers were pitiless toward their enemy. gave the beggar in the street a pitiless look and kept on walking

Recent Examples on the Web Nabokov started to seem less like a lovable, bumbling Professor Pnin and more like a pitiless White Russian with a monocle and an ebony cigarette holder. — Ian Frazier, The New Yorker, "Nabokov, Steinberg, and Me," 7 Dec. 2020 Soon friends chimed in with their own artifacts, surviving examples of Washington’s pitiless retail ecosystem. — Washington Post, "Archaeology of Washington retail is in our basements, attics and garages," 6 Sep. 2020 No one wants to think about this now, but eventually our old friend Adam Smith will come calling to collect his inevitable and pitiless fee. — The Editorial Board, WSJ, "Allow Us to Present the Pandemic Bill," 2 Sep. 2020 The Snowtown Murders, his pitiless debut, depicted the murders committed by notorious serial killer John Bunting with a nightmarish inexorability, heightened by an overcast color palette that could be described as gunmetal. — Isaac Feldberg, Fortune, "‘True History of the Kelly Gang’ director, stars on their hypnotic outlaw saga," 23 Apr. 2020 Prices dropped to less than $10 a barrel, triggering a pitiless industry shakeout. — Jack Farchy, Bloomberg.com, "Global Oil Producers Face Brutal Reckoning After Epic OPEC+ Fail," 5 May 2020 That dream is quickly dying, and our government has been particularly pitiless during this crisis. — Los Angeles Times, "Column: The PPP is letting our small restaurants and businesses die," 18 Apr. 2020 There’s no other game on the market like Sea of Thieves, which simulates the life of a pirate by pitting the player against the pitiless sea. — Matthew Gault, Time, "The 10 Best Xbox One X Games You Can Play Right Now," 5 Feb. 2020 But Parasite is sarcastic; Bong copies the same pitiless, poisonous view of human relations as that in Yorgos Lanthimos’s The Killing of a Sacred Deer and The Favourite. — Armond White, National Review, "Parasite: Antifa Comedy for the Cancel-Culture Era," 11 Oct. 2019

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“Pitiless.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pitiless. Accessed 21 Jan. 2021.

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