pitiless
adjective
feeling or showing no pity; merciless.
pitilessly
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a word derived from
pitiless.
Example Sentences
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You might even define a great artist by the ability to pitilessly remove the inessential, no matter how clever the sentence or brilliant the movement composition.
From New York Times ● Sep. 11, 2023
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
But there have been stumbles since and whichever way you look at it, the draw is pitilessly hard.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 26, 2019
It was as if nothing had ever been but rain, and the water pitilessly found every hole in the thatched roof to come in, dripping onto the already damp floor.
From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya
