as in ruthless
not sorry for having done wrong
she was unrepentant about getting rid of her ex-roommate's junk
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Recent Examples of unrepentant
Her memoir's first chapter finds her as a teenager inebriated outside an Arizona nightclub, already standing at a metaphorical crossroads between herself and her unrepentant desires to achieve her most heartfelt desires as professional goals.
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Marcus K. Dowling, The Tennessean, 2 July 2025
One is the diminished and unrepentant former governor who blames the left for his personal disgrace.
—Harry Siegel, New York Daily News, 14 June 2025
The writer becomes an unrepentant co-conspirator in the plot to knock down Spears, one breaking news item at a time.
—Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 9 June 2025
Anti-doping agencies should, of course, be trying to catch unrepentant cheaters.
—Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online, 2 June 2025
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Marcus K. Dowling, The Tennessean, 2 July 2025
One is the diminished and unrepentant former governor who blames the left for his personal disgrace.
—Harry Siegel, New York Daily News, 14 June 2025
The writer becomes an unrepentant co-conspirator in the plot to knock down Spears, one breaking news item at a time.
—Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 9 June 2025
Anti-doping agencies should, of course, be trying to catch unrepentant cheaters.
—Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online, 2 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unrepentant
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Hunted by the ruthless crime boss that Don worked for and learned all the boss’s sinister secrets — Perlman plays him — Don has a reason to seek redemption.—
Mike Fleming Jr,
Deadline,
5 Sep. 2025
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Witness Alex Hales’ ruthless removal.—
Tim Ellis,
Forbes.com,
3 Sep. 2025
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For her part, having faced such criticism for over four decades, Newkirk remains blissfully impenitent.—
Jan Dutkiewicz,
Vox,
8 Aug. 2024
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Among the various allegations put forward are reports of drugging and fascist group chats, slave labour and foot photograph farms, with the brand’s impenitent founder Stephan Marsan at its centre.—
Daniel Rodgers,
Vogue,
12 Apr. 2024
Adjective
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Because of the cruel math of throughput and utilization, over ten days, only three hundred people experienced Blur.—
Charlie Fink,
Forbes.com,
6 Sep. 2025
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Tamra was awful to Gretchen back then, culminating in the Naked Wasted Party, which was one of the cruelest things to ever happen on Housewives.—
Brian Moylan,
Vulture,
5 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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What’s different, after 25 years of all that freshly unashamed ABBA love, is that our wistful nostalgia isn’t just for ABBA anymore.—
Owen Gleiberman,
Variety,
15 Aug. 2025
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Most notable was the character Marty Morrison on Barney Miller, an out-of-the-closet and unashamed gay man.—
Jordan Hoffman,
EW.com,
26 July 2025
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Things don’t go well, resulting in a Lord of the Flies–esque battle between, among others, Jude Law’s idealist and Ana de Armas’s shameless sensualist.—
Will Leitch,
Vulture,
22 Aug. 2025
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Okay, shameless plug for the series that helped inspire my own book!—
Taylor Grothe,
Parents,
20 Aug. 2025
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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
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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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“Unrepentant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unrepentant. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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