compassion
noun
a feeling of deep sympathy and sorrow for another who is stricken by misfortune, accompanied by a strong desire to alleviate the suffering.
compassionless
-
a word derived from
compassion.
Example Sentences
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NFL football is no more or less dog-eat-dog, quarterless and compassionless than your daily life.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 12, 2020
Arty had a hard time believing that people could be that compassionless.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 25, 2018
Baldwin, after all, has become notorious on “Saturday Night Live” for playing another suit-wearing character who’s also egomaniacal, compassionless and a self-described business genius.
From Washington Times ● Mar. 30, 2017
All the other characters are pretty keen to tell Claire to lighten up, correct her, or just make her look like a joyless, compassionless drone.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 20, 2015
The terms in which he had spoken of the Patriotic movement and his reference to its compassionless sacrifice of victims disturbed me profoundly.
From By Wit of Woman by Arthur W. (Arthur Williams) Marchmont
