1
as in uncompromising
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as in resentful
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Recent Examples of unforgiving
In summer, British soldiers in heavy woolen uniforms suffered heat stroke on marches beneath the unforgiving South Carolina sun.
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Ken Burns, USA Today, 18 June 2025
Protesters filled the Capitol steps and lawn, and spilled onto nearby streets with anti-Trump signs and chants in the unforgiving heat.
—Nick Rosenberger, Idaho Statesman, 14 June 2025
This isn't the first time DeChambeau voiced his frustration
DeChambeau's latest YouTube video captured just how unforgiving Oakmont is.
—Devlina Sarkar, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 June 2025
Players have spent days grinding through practice rounds, trying to tame Oakmont Country Club's unforgiving setup.
—Devlina Sarkar, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 June 2025
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Ken Burns, USA Today, 18 June 2025
Protesters filled the Capitol steps and lawn, and spilled onto nearby streets with anti-Trump signs and chants in the unforgiving heat.
—Nick Rosenberger, Idaho Statesman, 14 June 2025
This isn't the first time DeChambeau voiced his frustration
DeChambeau's latest YouTube video captured just how unforgiving Oakmont is.
—Devlina Sarkar, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 June 2025
Players have spent days grinding through practice rounds, trying to tame Oakmont Country Club's unforgiving setup.
—Devlina Sarkar, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unforgiving
Adjective
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Sparked by the good early form of James Maddison, Tottenham briefly looked like title contenders, with an incredibly uncompromising form of football.—
Michael Cox,
New York Times,
7 June 2025
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Hindu nationalist Prime Minister Narendra Modi has pushed a more uncompromising position on the contested land.—
Rhea Mogul,
CNN Money,
14 May 2025
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The grief of this loss has left him unengaged with his new life, resentful of Olga for her busy military career surveilling orbital debris, and uninterested in making friends.—
Alison Willmore,
Vulture,
17 June 2025
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This is because, little under a year after being handed a landslide majority by the U.K. electorate, Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s government is deeply unpopular and thrashing around for ways to appease a surly and resentful public.—
Ian King,
CNBC,
11 June 2025
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The DuSable schools are emblematic of an unyielding predicament facing the district.—
Jennifer Smith Richards,
ProPublica,
13 June 2025
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Trump’s advisers remain animated by the unyielding belief that the economic experts were proven wrong in Trump’s first term.—
Phil Mattingly,
CNN Money,
4 June 2025
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What is a totalitarian leader other than an individualist taking that creed to its cruel conclusions, erasing the uniqueness of every other person into mere characters in a drama?—
Ed Simon
June 23,
Literary Hub,
23 June 2025
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This realization reconfigures the entire book, recasting their ongoing dialogue and seemingly cordial relations as an interstellar jail—and the novel itself into an extended, especially cruel prison sentence.—
Robert Rubsam,
The Atlantic,
21 June 2025
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Suggesting that a white male president of a certain age hears a piece of bad news and drops dead in the Oval seemed uncharitable.—
Katie Campione,
Deadline,
5 June 2025
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Politics is a dirty game where partisans are incentivized to be as uncharitable about the other side as possible.—
Sal Rodriguez,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
12 May 2025
Adjective
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In the book, Benedict falls for Sophie Beckett, the daughter of an earl who’s been hidden away from the Ton and forced to work as a housemaid by her spiteful stepmother.—
Radhika Seth,
Vogue,
14 Feb. 2025
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But what does our contemporary obsession — both spiteful and fawning — with Brutalism say about our wants and needs as a society at this moment?—
Anna Kodé,
New York Times,
22 Feb. 2025
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The gang is in existential crisis mode when they get thrown into a donation box and face their own mortality at a day care run by a sadistic teddy bear.—
Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
21 June 2025
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What sadistic joke is this for families facing Alzheimer’s, stroke or advanced dementia?—
Paul Fillinger,
Mercury News,
18 June 2025
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In healthcare, for example, AI is being used in skin cancer detection, yet studies show that dermatologists are less likely to recommend biopsies for malignant skin cancers on patients with darker skin.—
Pauleanna Reid,
Forbes.com,
18 June 2025
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One study found that overall incidence of malignant appendix tumors in the United States more than doubled from 2000 to 2016 — and the diagnosis increases were highest among younger age groups.—
Tom Gavin,
EverydayHealth.com,
10 June 2025
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“Unforgiving.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unforgiving. Accessed 30 Jun. 2025.
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