Pitiless
adjective
Having or showing no kindness or sympathy for others.
The pitiless soldier continued to beat the prisoner even though he was crying for mercy.
Often appears as...
- pitiless storm
- pitiless sun
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Disapproving
adjective
Not being affected by or showing emotion about serious problems or pain.
The pitiless world of politics is not for the faint of heart.
Often appears as...
- pitiless reality
- pitiless truth
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Disapproving
adjective
Having or showing no kindness or sympathy for others.
The pitiless soldier continued to beat the prisoner even though he was crying for mercy.
Often appears as...
- pitiless storm
- pitiless sun
Usage tips
Disapproving
adjective
Not being affected by or showing emotion about serious problems or pain.
The pitiless world of politics is not for the faint of heart.
Often appears as...
- pitiless reality
- pitiless truth
Usage tips
Disapproving
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Pro Tip 1/3Emotional Harshness
Expresses severe lack of empathy, often indicating cruelty or coldness.
The pitiless judge showed no remorse at the harsh sentence.
Pro Tip 2/3Descriptive Imagery
Used metaphorically to describe severe weather or unforgiving natural conditions that cause suffering.
Stranded in the desert, they endured the pitiless sun.
Pro Tip 3/3Powerful Disregard
Highlights an authoritative or dominant figure's indifference to suffering.
The dictator's pitiless policies caused widespread discontent.
Pro Tip 1/3Emotional Harshness
Expresses severe lack of empathy, often indicating cruelty or coldness.
The pitiless judge showed no remorse at the harsh sentence.
Pro Tip 2/3Descriptive Imagery
Used metaphorically to describe severe weather or unforgiving natural conditions that cause suffering.
Stranded in the desert, they endured the pitiless sun.
Pro Tip 3/3Powerful Disregard
Highlights an authoritative or dominant figure's indifference to suffering.
The dictator's pitiless policies caused widespread discontent.
Pro Tip 1/3Emotional Harshness
Expresses severe lack of empathy, often indicating cruelty or coldness.
The pitiless judge showed no remorse at the harsh sentence.
Pro Tip 2/3Descriptive Imagery
Used metaphorically to describe severe weather or unforgiving natural conditions that cause suffering.
Stranded in the desert, they endured the pitiless sun.
Pro Tip 3/3Powerful Disregard
Highlights an authoritative or dominant figure's indifference to suffering.
The dictator's pitiless policies caused widespread discontent.
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Is the world getting...
and rhetorical power than I can tell it better and spread it further. It goes something like this. We are born into a pitiless universe, facing steep odds against life-enabling order and in constant jeopardy of falling apart.
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A shape with lion body and the head of a man, A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun, Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
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Is the world getting...
and rhetorical power than I can tell it better and spread it further. It goes something like this. We are born into a pitiless universe, facing steep odds against life-enabling order and in constant jeopardy of falling apart.
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"The Second Coming" by...
A shape with lion body and the head of a man, A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun, Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
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Anthony Marra
American Writer
When I came to the last line of 'Car Crash While Hitchhiking,' I read it as a pitiless statement of indifference: a refusal to warn the family of their impending collision, a refusal to help when miraculously spared, a refusal to act on the empathy hiding behind the story's language.
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Kresley Cole
American Novelist
If I could sum up 'Shadow's Claim' in six words: cage fights with hot alpha males. Seriously, though, while the fights are the backdrop for Trehan and Bettina's love story, the main emphasis is on how Trehan - a pitiless master assassin - wages the ultimate battle to win her heart.
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Michael Ian Black
American Comedian
Lordy, lordy, lordy do I love money. It is a character flaw, no doubt, one that springs from a panicked childhood in which I always felt as if our family was only a couple missed child support payments from being tossed onto the pitiless streets of our suburban New Jersey town.
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Frankie Boyle
Scottish Comedian
Your ruling class don't care about what happens to you. What seems like some enormous upset in your community is undetectable from a helicopter or a speeding motorcade. They are pitiless.
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Simone Weil
French Philosopher
Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims; the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is, nobody really possesses it.
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Richard Dawkins
English Scientist
The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.
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Norman Davies
British Historian
Young people have to learn in a cocoon filled with false optimism. Unlike their parents and grandparents, they grow up with very little sense of the pitiless passage of time.
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Alistair Horne
British Historian
Though not the longest battle in history - that was Verdun - Stalingrad was certainly the most pitiless, an adjective that reappears regularly in Mr. Beevor's classic work.
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Saul David
British Historian
No campaign of the First World War better justifies the poets' view of the conflict as futile and pitiless than Gallipoli.
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Eleanor Roosevelt
American First Lady
Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.
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Anthony Marra
American Writer
When I came to the last line of 'Car Crash While Hitchhiking,' I read it as a pitiless statement of indifference: a refusal to warn the family of their impending collision, a refusal to help when miraculously spared, a refusal to act on the empathy hiding behind the story's language.
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Kresley Cole
American Novelist
If I could sum up 'Shadow's Claim' in six words: cage fights with hot alpha males. Seriously, though, while the fights are the backdrop for Trehan and Bettina's love story, the main emphasis is on how Trehan - a pitiless master assassin - wages the ultimate battle to win her heart.
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Michael Ian Black
American Comedian
Lordy, lordy, lordy do I love money. It is a character flaw, no doubt, one that springs from a panicked childhood in which I always felt as if our family was only a couple missed child support payments from being tossed onto the pitiless streets of our suburban New Jersey town.
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Frankie Boyle
Scottish Comedian
Your ruling class don't care about what happens to you. What seems like some enormous upset in your community is undetectable from a helicopter or a speeding motorcade. They are pitiless.
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Simone Weil
French Philosopher
Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it, or thinks he does, as it is to its victims; the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates. The truth is, nobody really possesses it.
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Richard Dawkins
English Scientist
The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.
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Norman Davies
British Historian
Young people have to learn in a cocoon filled with false optimism. Unlike their parents and grandparents, they grow up with very little sense of the pitiless passage of time.
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Alistair Horne
British Historian
Though not the longest battle in history - that was Verdun - Stalingrad was certainly the most pitiless, an adjective that reappears regularly in Mr. Beevor's classic work.
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Saul David
British Historian
No campaign of the First World War better justifies the poets' view of the conflict as futile and pitiless than Gallipoli.
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Eleanor Roosevelt
American First Lady
Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.
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