pitilessness

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Noun
  • Kroshunov's daughter, Ilana Korshunov, expressed shock at the callousness of the driver.
    Anders Hagstrom, FOXNews.com, 29 Jan. 2026
  • That means uprooting institutionalized callousness and redefining what counts as efficiency, innovation and value.
    Valerie L. Myers, The Conversation, 8 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • China has gained, not suffered, from this obduracy.
    JONATHAN A. CZIN, Foreign Affairs, 25 Nov. 2025
  • Related: ‘Neglected diseases’ are anything but neglected by the billion-plus people living with them One possible reason for this obduracy is that noma begins as a dental disease, and dental diseases have long been underappreciated global health concerns.
    John Button, STAT, 16 Dec. 2023
Noun
  • If the first moves of your day are poorly aligned, rushed or extreme — such as bending forward deeply to touch your toes — your nervous system, sensing spinal rigidity, may react with acute protective muscle tension as a guarding mechanism.
    Dana Santas, CNN Money, 30 Jan. 2026
  • The rigidity of the big cable bundle and its ever-increasing price has fomented consumer frustration for decades.
    Howard Homonoff, Forbes.com, 29 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Tarr's reputation for films tinged with misery and hard-heartedness, distinguished by black-and-white cinematography and unusually long sequences, only grew throughout the 1990s and 2000s, particularly after his 1994 film Sátántangó.
    Alina Edwards, NPR, 6 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • This significant reduction in impact speed and severity is a demonstration of the material safety benefit of the Waymo Driver.
    Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 4 Feb. 2026
  • The migrant boat capsized and sank due to the severity of the impact, causing all passengers on board to fall into the sea a few miles off the coast of Turkey, the statement said.
    Reuters, CNN Money, 4 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • The Red Sox could also try to move on from Masataka Yoshida, though his contract, injury history and positional inflexibility will hamper his trade value.
    Mac Cerullo, Boston Herald, 16 Jan. 2026
  • Roster inflexibility could further complicate matters.
    Chandler Rome, New York Times, 13 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Yet behind his sternness lived a man of reflection and sensitivity, whose words and verses hinted at a gentleness rarely shown.
    Leo Barraclough, Variety, 13 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • And there’s little strictness about ideological consistency.
    Charles Duhigg, New Yorker, 26 Jan. 2026
  • His mother’s strictness helped Harewood avoid getting caught up in selling drugs.
    Raisa Habersham, Miami Herald, 16 Jan. 2026
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“Pitilessness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pitilessness. Accessed 8 Feb. 2026.

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