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 Marchmont, Arthur W. (Arthur Williams)