unforgiving

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Recent Examples of unforgiving New Yorkers can be unforgiving when a mayor is caught out of town at the wrong time. Eric Lach, New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2025 Israel’s response has been brutal and unforgiving. Max Goldbart, Deadline, 9 Oct. 2025 The big knock on performance-assistive tech like electric bikes is the idea that users are taking the easy, lazy way out, a shortcut to avoid the unforgiving gauntlet of hard physical work. New Atlas, 7 Oct. 2025 This is a dense, unforgiving movie in the classic sense, an adults-only drama that doesn’t placate despite its stylistic overreaches. Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 28 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for unforgiving
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unforgiving
Adjective
  • Their uncompromising moral clarity shaped the conscience of the West, later echoed by Christian preachers crusading for abolition, civil rights, and human dignity.
    Josh Hammer, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Sep. 2025
  • First published in 1977, these reports were mandated with a simple but uncompromising goal: gather the best available information from U.S. embassies, NGOs, journalists, and survivors; verify it through rigorous review; and publish it without political interference.
    Michael Posner, Forbes.com, 5 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Dillingham did not grow resentful toward Finch for the lack of playing time.
    Jon Krawczynski, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2025
  • The Russians, who were resentful of Western efforts to freeze them out over Ukraine, have toned down their anti-American rhetoric.
    Richard Gowan, Time, 22 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Martin, who is fifty-four, is the most commercially successful songwriter of the twenty-first century; his work is meticulous and precise, and his songs are taut, balanced, unyielding.
    Amanda Petrusich, New Yorker, 3 Oct. 2025
  • In a market chock full of unknowns, there is an unyielding rhythm on Wall Street.
    Morgan Chittum, CNBC, 2 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • In Dahl’s original story, the Muggle-Wumps are clever and resourceful, using their smarts to turn the tables on their cruel captors.
    Jane LaCroix, PEOPLE, 18 Oct. 2025
  • On the page, these serve to paint him in a monstrous light following his abandonment by his egotistical and cruel creator, Victor Frankenstein (Oscar Isaac).
    Megan McCluskey, Time, 17 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • The only way to get to that conclusion, however, is to make a lot of uncharitable assumptions about Kimmel’s thinking.
    Josef Adalian, Vulture, 18 Sep. 2025
  • That utilitarian descriptor may seem a bit uncharitable, but the fact is, the 2.0-liter, OHV inline-four is rugged, indefatigable and, making about 100 hp, sufficiently powerful to scoot the 2,100-pound roadster along at a nice pace.
    Robert Ross, Robb Report, 29 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • Several diss tracks followed, with the musicians hurling increasingly spiteful insults at each other relating to accusations of domestic abuse, exploitation and pedophilia.
    Ethan Millman, HollywoodReporter, 9 Oct. 2025
  • They were clouded by an entire era of underperformance, tough luck and spiteful ownership.
    Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 13 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • But a handful of individuals managed to survive Gacy’s horrific attacks — with some even helping to land the sadistic killer behind bars.
    Lynsey Eidell, PEOPLE, 17 Oct. 2025
  • There’s some unsubtle allegory in this Taiwanese movie about a flulike virus that turns people into sadistic psychopaths.
    Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 16 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Senator John McCain died in 2018 at the age of 81 due to a malignant brain tumor.
    Rachel McRady, PEOPLE, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Given her age at the time, the chance of a malignant tumor seemed highly unlikely, as the average age to start breast cancer screening is around 40.
    Essence, Essence, 9 Oct. 2025

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“Unforgiving.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unforgiving. Accessed 22 Oct. 2025.

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