pitiless
adjective
feeling or showing no pity; merciless.
pitilessly
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a word derived from
pitiless.
Example Sentences
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That’s because “No Country” escorts you through a world so pitilessly bleak, “you put your soul at hazard,” as one character says, to be part of it.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 25, 2023
A few weeks before his demise, a Soviet publication described him as "wrecked" – a "pitilessly" dumped product victimized by the American consumerist system.
From Salon ● Jun. 25, 2022
These are about condescending, pitilessly detached men and the trapped women who love them — and they’re simply brutal.
From New York Times ● Nov. 2, 2020
She says she used to be pitilessly intolerant of her own physical self, but won’t elaborate on how that manifested itself, because she refuses to allow herself that line of thinking.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 11, 2017
She saw with quiet impotence how the deluge was pitilessly exterminating a fortune that at one time was considered the largest and most solid in Macondo, and of which nothing remained but pestilence.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
