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as in uncompromising
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as in resentful
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Recent Examples of unforgiving
Horror movies can often be unforgiving to animals, but this service cat helps the terminally ill Sam (Lupita Nyong'o) face the apocalypse — and ultimately survives against the odds.
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Devan Coggan, EW.com, 11 Apr. 2025
For promoted clubs, England’s top division gets increasingly unforgiving.
—Phil Hay, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2025
But theatrical acoustics can be unforgiving, especially with an actor who tends to swallow his lines, however slyly.
—Helen Shaw, New Yorker, 4 Apr. 2025
Djokovic has pulled out of Rome and is struggling to put any kind of run together on the most unforgiving surface of them all.
—Tim Ellis, Forbes.com, 6 May 2025
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Devan Coggan, EW.com, 11 Apr. 2025
For promoted clubs, England’s top division gets increasingly unforgiving.
—Phil Hay, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2025
But theatrical acoustics can be unforgiving, especially with an actor who tends to swallow his lines, however slyly.
—Helen Shaw, New Yorker, 4 Apr. 2025
Djokovic has pulled out of Rome and is struggling to put any kind of run together on the most unforgiving surface of them all.
—Tim Ellis, Forbes.com, 6 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unforgiving
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In a culture drunk on likability and addicted to mass approval, Kilmer was something else entirely — unpredictable, uncompromising, unforgettable.—
Jeetendr Sehdev,
Forbes.com,
2 Apr. 2025
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In recent years, however, the Chinese state has taken an even more uncompromising line.—
Gina Anne Tam,
Foreign Affairs,
19 Sep. 2023
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Sometimes there's also a lack of support—if partners or family members don’t share the mental load, new moms can feel isolated, unappreciated, or resentful, worsening feelings of depression.—
Hannah Nwoko,
Parents,
1 May 2025
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Lesser powers that find themselves under the dominion of a great power against their wishes can be resentful and rebellious.—
Margaret MacMillan,
The Atlantic,
30 Apr. 2025
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My Focus My own mistakes have informed my unyielding focus on family.—
Ken Polk,
Forbes.com,
18 Apr. 2025
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Most impactful is the film’s focus on the adult son of Ramirez’s victim, whose anger seems so unyielding.—
Joe Reid,
Vulture,
28 Feb. 2025
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Scheifele’s emotional and inspirational decision to play mere hours after his father’s unexpected death — to play for his dad, to play because of his dad — ended in cruel fashion, with Scheifele helpless in the penalty box.—
Mark Lazerus,
New York Times,
18 May 2025
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At first the program seems to be benign, but Hayakawa’s film steadily reveals how the policy thrives on the cruel capitalist tenet that people are disposable.—
Lovia Gyarkye,
HollywoodReporter,
17 May 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
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Danny is preparing her staff for an imminent natural disaster in this scene, so the tone’s quite serious already, and her opinion of Grey’s seems uncharitable at best.—
Rebecca Luther,
TVLine,
3 Apr. 2025
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Several diss tracks followed, with the musicians hurling increasingly spiteful insults at each other relating to accusations of domestic abuse, exploitation and pedophilia.—
Winston Cho,
The Hollywood Reporter,
17 Mar. 2025
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The more spiteful Drake could smell a world of buff, misogynistic grifters taking hold and made sure to set up shop where the audience would be.—
Craig Jenkins,
Vulture,
7 Feb. 2025
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The highlight by far is a fantastically villainous turn by the late Philip Seymour Hoffman as a sadistic arms dealer.—
Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
20 May 2025
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Fred was known to have sadistic tendencies and wooed a teenage Rose to join him on his killing sprees.—
Lea Veloso,
StyleCaster,
14 May 2025
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Last month, my son reached two years in remission from a rare, malignant cancer that almost took his eye and his life.—
Dayna Copeland,
The Mercury News,
15 Mar. 2025
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After a series of tests, Karen was diagnosed with a glioma of the pons, a malignant tumor growing within the middle part of her brain stem.—
Jackie Tempera,
People.com,
27 Apr. 2025
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“Unforgiving.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unforgiving. Accessed 25 May. 2025.
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