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as in ruthless
not sorry for having done wrong
the remorseless killer was sentenced to life in prison without chance of parole
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as in merciless
having or showing a lack of sympathy or tender feelings
a remorseless and implacable hit man wordlessly pursuing his victim
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Recent Examples of remorseless
New York City is full of remorseless individualists who nonetheless stick to some codes very rigidly.
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Doreen St. Félix, New Yorker, 8 Nov. 2025
Most likely because this is the first time in the series that the story is told from the Predator’s perspective; audiences couldn’t really be asked to peer over the shoulder of a remorseless killing machine for 107 minutes.
—Richard Lawson, HollywoodReporter, 4 Nov. 2025
None of that prevailed on Gov. Ron DeSantis, who rejected clemency (as usual, without comment) or on the Florida Supreme Court, which has become the nation’s most remorseless and predictable death factory.
—Orlando Sentinel, The Orlando Sentinel, 19 July 2025
It is imperiled by a tyrannical president, a cowardly Congress and a remorseless Supreme Court.
—Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 3 July 2025
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Doreen St. Félix, New Yorker, 8 Nov. 2025
Most likely because this is the first time in the series that the story is told from the Predator’s perspective; audiences couldn’t really be asked to peer over the shoulder of a remorseless killing machine for 107 minutes.
—Richard Lawson, HollywoodReporter, 4 Nov. 2025
None of that prevailed on Gov. Ron DeSantis, who rejected clemency (as usual, without comment) or on the Florida Supreme Court, which has become the nation’s most remorseless and predictable death factory.
—Orlando Sentinel, The Orlando Sentinel, 19 July 2025
It is imperiled by a tyrannical president, a cowardly Congress and a remorseless Supreme Court.
—Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 3 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for remorseless
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Lydia, naturally, has her own reasons for pairing Agnes and Daisy together, evolving from a ruthless zealot and disciplinarian in Handmaid’s Tale into a kind of double agent looking to overthrow Gilead from within the hallowed halls of power in Testaments, as the finale set her up to do.—
Max Gao,
HollywoodReporter,
5 Mar. 2026
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After enduring a tough patch in business, fate changes his course, turning him into El Serpiente, a ruthless political strategist.—
Anna Marie de la Fuente,
Variety,
3 Mar. 2026
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Waltz lends a slimy charisma to the merciless SS colonel, who gets a satisfying comeuppance via carving knife.—
Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
4 Mar. 2026
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These are two of the most conniving, merciless people on television, and they’re bonded by the twin desire to be more like the other.—
Amanda Whiting,
Vulture,
23 Feb. 2026
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Indeed, the covert interventions so central to the Cold War, which these men embodied, relied on some of the cruelest instruments in the tool kit of modern statecraft—assassination, coup d’état, mass murder, psychological manipulation, surrogate warfare, torture, and terror.—
Alfred McCoy,
Literary Hub,
26 Feb. 2026
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In what has to be the cruelest Survivor fate ever, Francesca came back to avenge being voted out first… and was then promptly voted out first again!—
Dalton Ross,
Entertainment Weekly,
26 Feb. 2026
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High Street began to slope upward, and the terrain became stonier around the sides of the road as Revere and his horse, Brown Beauty, ascended Rock Hill.—
Kostya Kennedy,
Time,
16 Feb. 2026
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The area is populated with stony terraces and narrow streets where bistros serve good Italian food (this being so close to the Italian border) and markets to shop for artisanal items.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
9 Feb. 2026
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