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Meanings of unforgiving in English

Not to be placated or appeased or moved by entreaty.

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Unwilling or unable to forgive or show mercy.

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Usage of unforgiving in English
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Pagel said the rule as it was originally written was too unforgiving.
Reuters
2
Dangers were plentiful and often unforgiving, but he understood and accepted them.
Ilse Witch
3
I may be unforgiving, but I can't work a grudge that long.
Life
4
The stress when you don't forgive An unforgiving spirit stresses the body.
Jamaica Observer
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Joe Hart has just discovered what an unforgiving business elite football is.
The Irish Times
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The pressures of film-making can reveal character in a very unforgiving way.
The Guardian
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He is an absence of light in a cold and unforgiving room.
Internecine
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The spectators' unforgiving hard benches in the unforgiving open sun was one.
The Irish Times
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Judging by this difficult and unforgiving book, that would be a diminishment.
The Guardian
10
Politics is one of the fiercest, most unforgiving industries in the world.
The South African
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The reaction to Christie's demeanor was swift and unforgiving on social media.
Reuters
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He knew only too well just how unforgiving that wilderness could be.
The devil wears plaid
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A Group One race over one mile of the Curragh's unforgiving plain.
The Irish Times
14
He was solitary and wretched because he had been harsh and unforgiving.
John Caldigate
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Still, it was Trump's day to be in the market's unforgiving glare.
Reuters
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And a more unforgiving face than yours I never set eyes on.
In Luck at Last
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Ireland
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United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
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