Remorseless
adjective
Not feeling or showing any regret or pity for wrongdoing.
He was remorseless during his court trial for his heinous crimes.
Often appears as...
- remorseless killer
- remorseless predator
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Disapproving
adjective
Continuing in a severe or extreme way without stopping.
The remorseless heat of the desert slowly dehydrated them.
Often appears as...
- remorseless heat
- remorseless battering
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Disapproving
adjective
Not feeling or showing any regret or pity for wrongdoing.
He was remorseless during his court trial for his heinous crimes.
Often appears as...
- remorseless killer
- remorseless predator
Usage tips
Disapproving
adjective
Continuing in a severe or extreme way without stopping.
The remorseless heat of the desert slowly dehydrated them.
Often appears as...
- remorseless heat
- remorseless battering
Usage tips
Disapproving
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Pro Tip 1/3Negative Connotation
The term often implies a strong negative judgment and is used to describe a person's character.
The CEO's remorseless decision affected thousands of employees.
Pro Tip 2/3Emotional Coldness
Using 'remorseless' suggests a person lacks empathy or warmth, appearing insensitive or cruel.
Her remorseless gaze made me shiver.
Pro Tip 3/3Legal Context
Often found in legal contexts, describing defendants who show no guilt for their actions.
The remorseless criminal faced the jury.
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Connotation
The term often implies a strong negative judgment and is used to describe a person's character.
The CEO's remorseless decision affected thousands of employees.
Pro Tip 2/3Emotional Coldness
Using 'remorseless' suggests a person lacks empathy or warmth, appearing insensitive or cruel.
Her remorseless gaze made me shiver.
Pro Tip 3/3Legal Context
Often found in legal contexts, describing defendants who show no guilt for their actions.
The remorseless criminal faced the jury.
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Connotation
The term often implies a strong negative judgment and is used to describe a person's character.
The CEO's remorseless decision affected thousands of employees.
Pro Tip 2/3Emotional Coldness
Using 'remorseless' suggests a person lacks empathy or warmth, appearing insensitive or cruel.
Her remorseless gaze made me shiver.
Pro Tip 3/3Legal Context
Often found in legal contexts, describing defendants who show no guilt for their actions.
The remorseless criminal faced the jury.
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Strange answers to the...
of empathy the glibness cunning manipulative in fact capitalism perhaps at its most remorseless is a physical manifestation of psychopathy it's like a form of psychopathy that's come down to affect us all the hair said to me you
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Hare said the reason why is because capitalism at its most ruthless rewards psychopathic behavior -- the lack of empathy, the glibness, cunning, manipulative. In fact, capitalism, perhaps at its most remorseless,
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over and over and over again the shark is seen as a living symbol of terror the nightmare is reenacted time and time again the remorseless killer the helpless victim
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Strange answers to the...
of empathy the glibness cunning manipulative in fact capitalism perhaps at its most remorseless is a physical manifestation of psychopathy it's like a form of psychopathy that's come down to affect us all the hair said to me you
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Strange answers to the...
Hare said the reason why is because capitalism at its most ruthless rewards psychopathic behavior -- the lack of empathy, the glibness, cunning, manipulative. In fact, capitalism, perhaps at its most remorseless,
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Do Shark Stories Help...
over and over and over again the shark is seen as a living symbol of terror the nightmare is reenacted time and time again the remorseless killer the helpless victim
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Quote examples
John Updike
American Novelist
My last vivid boyhood fright from books came when I was 15; I was visiting my uncle and aunt in Greenwich, and, emboldened by my success with 'The Waste Land,' I opened their copy of 'Ulysses.' The whiff of death off those remorseless, closely written pages overpowered me. So: back to soluble mysteries, and jokes that were not cosmic.
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Harold Pinter
English Dramatist
The crimes of the U.S. throughout the world have been systematic, constant, clinical, remorseless, and fully documented but nobody talks about them.
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Monty Don
English Celebrity
Gardening is inevitably a process of constant, remorseless change. It is the constancy of that process that is so comforting, not any fixed moment.
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Robert Harris
British Novelist
Politics is never a victory, it's just the remorseless grinding forward of events.
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John Updike
American Novelist
My last vivid boyhood fright from books came when I was 15; I was visiting my uncle and aunt in Greenwich, and, emboldened by my success with 'The Waste Land,' I opened their copy of 'Ulysses.' The whiff of death off those remorseless, closely written pages overpowered me. So: back to soluble mysteries, and jokes that were not cosmic.
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Harold Pinter
English Dramatist
The crimes of the U.S. throughout the world have been systematic, constant, clinical, remorseless, and fully documented but nobody talks about them.
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Monty Don
English Celebrity
Gardening is inevitably a process of constant, remorseless change. It is the constancy of that process that is so comforting, not any fixed moment.
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Robert Harris
British Novelist
Politics is never a victory, it's just the remorseless grinding forward of events.
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