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Meanings of pitiless in English

Without mercy or pity.

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Deficient in humane and kindly feelings.

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Examples for "unkind"
1
I think that is very unkind; and she marched on in silence.
Dawn
2
Miranda left the party they were at after the boyfriend's unkind words.
News.com.au
3
No; I am not invited, and I call it unkind of Harriet.
The Automobile Girls at Washington; Or, Checkmating the Plots of...
4
WITHOUT wanting to sound unkind, Fionn Regan cannot give a straight answer.
The Irish Times
5
I feel history has been unkind to this flawed but fascinating figure.
The Guardian
Usage of pitiless in English
1
Quite stark, pitiless things when you really apply them and mean it.
The Slab
2
Yes, a pitiless time -a time of iron -has come!
A writer at war: vasily grossman with the red army
3
They are the most pitiless of all the robbers in these seas.
Vandrad the Viking; Or, The Feud and the Spell
4
Once more her heart hardened in the pitiless fury of outraged mercy.
The Second Generation
5
The nose and mouth were clean-cut and pitiless in their very symmetry.
Jane Cable
6
The mother and the elder sister had been pitiless to the last.
The Wind in the Rose-Bush, and Other Stories of the Supernatural
7
The experience of the past delineated with pitiless fidelity the dreary scene.
The New Magdalen
8
Be not pitiless toward our prayers; permit us to deliver the goddess.
The Eleven Comedies, Volume 1
9
There were all the bills, the pitiless insecurity, the problems of adjustment.
The Incredible Shrinking Man
10
All were skilled in religious discipline, expert in strategy, pitiless and rich.
Salammbo
11
The streets and houses were immediately the scene of a pitiless massacre.
A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate
12
The latest writings of the economists are full of these pitiless conclusions.
System of Economical Contradictions; Or, The Philosophy of Miser...
13
But the days which followed were weary and the nights were pitiless.
The Survivor
14
The grotesque, the pitiless horror of it struck him for an instant.
The Miller Of Old Church
15
All through the long summer day of pitiless heat the battle raged.
This Country of Ours
16
With the pitiless accuracy of a bullwhacker the ringmaster pursued his victim.
Andy the Acrobat / Or, Out with the Greatest Show on Earth
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United Kingdom
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United States of America
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