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Definition of pitiless in English: pitilessadjective ˈpɪtɪləsˈpɪdiləs 1Showing no pity; cruel. Example sentencesExamples - Her spirit had blazed the blinding blue of pure fury, and her soul had been filled with the purest black of the most pitiless executioner.
- I would add a few refinements of my own devising, concessions to our cruel and pitiless modern age.
- They were not, in other words, misunderstood, socially maladjusted, middle-class rebels but a pair of determined and pitiless economic vandals
- But the pitiless character of his criticism diminishes these letters in this respect, even as it enlarges them in other ways.
- Here the artist painstakingly compresses history into an unfathomable listing of dates and we become ‘a pitiless witness’.
- The reviewer's pithy, pitiless conclusion: ‘Get real.’
- He uses the mesh of the jungle screen to play on our fears of the unknown and the pitiless savagery that is the reality of nature.
- It's a vicious ideology and it's sustained by violence and by the pitiless conversion of its own adherents into dumb weapons.
- And doubtless in surveying American culture our pitiless foe finds much evidence to support such a malign view.
- And his voice is so subtly ironic, and so pitiless - toward himself among others - that he makes Sebald look almost soft.
- We must not let one side be ruthless, self-confident and organised: ‘It is civilization, pluralism and secularism that need pitiless and unapologetic fighters.’
- Epitia argues for this course of action because she does not want to regard herself as ‘a pitiless and cruel woman.’
- It was a brutal, vicious and pitiless attack in which you showed your victim no mercy.
- They utterly failed to see how the event had changed everything, by revealing just how pitiless and ruthless our new opponent was prepared to be.
- Did their pitiful cries and prayers rise into the night to a God who seemed deaf and pitiless as their cruel jailers?
- Football is merciless and pitiless, and in a business sense Gill merely stated the obvious: no-one is indispensable.
- ‘Now for the first time you have hurt me, you cruel, pitiless man are sleeping the sleep of death‘.
- ‘A bounty hunter must be ruthless, pitiless, and merciless,’ he began sharply.
- After this there was no fight; only heartless, pitiless slaughter.
- The Russian military campaign has been pitiless.
Synonyms merciless, ruthless, cruel, heartless - 1.1 (especially of weather) unrelentingly harsh or severe.
Example sentencesExamples - He approaches me while I'm sheltering from the hideous, pitiless weather.
- The thought of EU Trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson meeting a grisly end in the Brussels public toilet where he hoped to seek refuge from the inexorable advance of pitiless technology is not unpleasing.
- He is a membrane between isolation and society, this man who crouches beneath his umbrella, navigating by guesswork in a pitiless storm that, having engulfed houses, streets and gutters, has deprived him of his bearings.
- I used to think it was beautiful, but now the weather's my enemy, pitiless and uncaring as napalm and bear traps.
- The figure was soaked through and through in his coat that ought to have been protecting him from the pitiless storm.
- The pitiless showerhead continues to drench her, the water bearing her life's blood down the drain.
Derivatives adverb ˈpɪtɪləsliˈpɪdilɪsli Our land, and all in it, would have been destroyed mercilessly, as pitilessly as a wild elephant in a lotus pond destroys all its flowers. Example sentencesExamples - Chavalit was ridiculed pitilessly in the domestic media.
- The evidence of a wasted life is pitilessly clear.
- Civil society is assaulted in the most criminal way by the most pitilessly reactionary force in the modern world.
- A war during which the allies had pitilessly bombed us and we had died like mosquitoes.
noun ˈpɪtɪləsnəsˈpɪdiləsnəs The showdown was fierce as both of them employed the basic rules of the trade: ruthlessness, mercilessness, and pitilessness. Example sentencesExamples - The story is set in a sanguinary and sadistic age; but it leaves one with the sense that the Cossacks may ultimately have been unrivalled in their capacity for purely impulsive pitilessness, unlit by the faintest flickering of conscience.
- Their pitilessness for those in power is to be feared more than any usurper's greedy heart.
- He gazed down at Ataren with pitilessness building in his eyes.
Definition of pitiless in US English: pitilessadjectiveˈpidēləsˈpɪdiləs Showing no pity; cruel. Example sentencesExamples - They utterly failed to see how the event had changed everything, by revealing just how pitiless and ruthless our new opponent was prepared to be.
- Football is merciless and pitiless, and in a business sense Gill merely stated the obvious: no-one is indispensable.
- The Russian military campaign has been pitiless.
- After this there was no fight; only heartless, pitiless slaughter.
- I would add a few refinements of my own devising, concessions to our cruel and pitiless modern age.
- And doubtless in surveying American culture our pitiless foe finds much evidence to support such a malign view.
- It's a vicious ideology and it's sustained by violence and by the pitiless conversion of its own adherents into dumb weapons.
- Did their pitiful cries and prayers rise into the night to a God who seemed deaf and pitiless as their cruel jailers?
- And his voice is so subtly ironic, and so pitiless - toward himself among others - that he makes Sebald look almost soft.
- It was a brutal, vicious and pitiless attack in which you showed your victim no mercy.
- ‘Now for the first time you have hurt me, you cruel, pitiless man are sleeping the sleep of death‘.
- Her spirit had blazed the blinding blue of pure fury, and her soul had been filled with the purest black of the most pitiless executioner.
- We must not let one side be ruthless, self-confident and organised: ‘It is civilization, pluralism and secularism that need pitiless and unapologetic fighters.’
- He uses the mesh of the jungle screen to play on our fears of the unknown and the pitiless savagery that is the reality of nature.
- But the pitiless character of his criticism diminishes these letters in this respect, even as it enlarges them in other ways.
- The reviewer's pithy, pitiless conclusion: ‘Get real.’
- ‘A bounty hunter must be ruthless, pitiless, and merciless,’ he began sharply.
- Here the artist painstakingly compresses history into an unfathomable listing of dates and we become ‘a pitiless witness’.
- They were not, in other words, misunderstood, socially maladjusted, middle-class rebels but a pair of determined and pitiless economic vandals
- Epitia argues for this course of action because she does not want to regard herself as ‘a pitiless and cruel woman.’
Synonyms merciless, ruthless, cruel, heartless
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