Examples of pitiless in a Sentence
The soldiers were pitiless toward their enemy.
gave the beggar in the street a pitiless look and kept on walking
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Back in Montana, every trip Jacob and company take to Bozeman and back is inevitably fraught with peril — if not instigated by dastardly rich guy Donald Whitfield (Timothy Dalton) and/or his henchman Banner Creighton (Jerome Flynn), then by the pitiless nature of extreme weather.
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Matt Brennan, Los Angeles Times, 14 Mar. 2025
These were the years in which capitalism shed its pitiless light on the absurd British soul, with its deep striations of caste and station, its postcolonial taint, most of all its perverted emotional core, full of love and loathing for its own extremes of domination and servitude.
—Rachel Cusk, Harper's Magazine, 19 Feb. 2025
Liu doesn’t invite a shred of sympathy for this pitiless mom.
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Matt Brennan, Los Angeles Times, 14 Mar. 2025
These were the years in which capitalism shed its pitiless light on the absurd British soul, with its deep striations of caste and station, its postcolonial taint, most of all its perverted emotional core, full of love and loathing for its own extremes of domination and servitude.
—Rachel Cusk, Harper's Magazine, 19 Feb. 2025
Liu doesn’t invite a shred of sympathy for this pitiless mom.
—Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 23 Jan. 2025
The story mirrors the original, following a fresh batch of desperate have-nots competing in elementary school games with a sizable fortune for the winners and pitiless execution for the losers.
—Tony Maglio, IndieWire, 16 Jan. 2025
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“Pitiless.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pitiless. Accessed 19 Apr. 2025.
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pitiless
adjective
piti·less
ˈpit-i-ləs 
ˈpit-ᵊl-əs
pitilessly
adverb
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