pitiless
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Synonyms & Antonyms for pitiless
Synonyms
affectless, callous, case-hardened, cold-blooded, compassionless, desensitized, hard, hard-boiled, hard-hearted, heartless, indurate, inhuman, inhumane, insensate, insensitive, ironhearted, merciless, obdurate, pachydermatous, remorseless, ruthless, slash-and-burn, soulless, stony (also stoney), stonyhearted, take-no-prisoners, thick-skinned, uncharitable, unfeeling, unmerciful, unsparing, unsympathetic
Antonyms
charitable, compassionate, humane, kindhearted, kindly, merciful, sensitive, softhearted, sympathetic, tender, tenderhearted, warm, warmhearted
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Good thing young Joe Montana was not subject to social media’s pitiless knee-jerk determinations back in 1979. — Gary Peterson, The Mercury News, "Jimmy Garoppolo’s preseason stinker reminds of young Joe Montana’s ugly game," 20 Aug. 2019 But the apex of peace and love and the abyss of pitiless violence were born out of similar drives as old as the U.S. itself. — San Diego Union-Tribune, "Woodstock, Manson and the march to Utopia," 13 Aug. 2019 Football training camp is drudgery under a pitiless summer sun. — Gary Peterson, The Mercury News, "49ers quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo: ‘I’m good to go, finally,’ as training camp nears," 10 July 2019 Yet the accretion of meticulous observation endows the pitiless narrative tone with the authority of revelation, and O’Hara’s steady focus on the arc of Julian’s catastrophe never loosens its hold on the reader’s interest. — Jamie James, WSJ, "‘John O’Hara: Four Novels of the 1930s’ Review: Big Fish in Small Towns," 3 Jan. 2019 Others take the voice of Charles, directing an impassioned j’accuse against his pitiless creator. — Sam Sacks, WSJ, "Fiction: From Great War to Trojan War," 6 Sep. 2018 The video clip, directed by the Ethiopian photographer and artist Aïda Muluneh, makes the desert a picturesque fashion backdrop for Ms. Diawara and a pitiless passage for a migrant young man. — Jon Pareles, New York Times, "The Playlist: Sade’s Haunting Lullaby, and 11 More New Songs," 9 Mar. 2018 Dark, explosive, pitiless, destructive, tornadoes are nature at its inhuman extreme, arousing awe and terror, the ultimate in the untamable and unknowable. — John Timpane, Philly.com, "'Man Who Caught the Storm': A tempestuous, true tale of a legendary storm-chaser," 18 May 2018 The writer’s calling is to set that memory in the amber of his prose; in Proust’s pitiless formulation, art is all, life is nothing. — Ryu Spaeth, The New Republic, "Gerald Murnane’s Endless Island," 4 May 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'pitiless.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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