(a.) Destitute of pity; hard-hearted; merciless; as, a pitilessmaster; pitiless elements.
(a.) Exciting no pity; as, a pitiless condition.
Example Sentences:
(1) They fit with his continuation of the regime’s systemic human rights abuses, its pitiless prison labour camp system including enslavement, forced abortions and systemic rape, its abductions and foreign hostage-taking, and its aggressive defiance of its neighbours.
(2) The judge began sentencing for the "sickening and pitiless" attack by saying that Adebolajo and Adebowale were converts to Islam who became radicalised and extremists.
(3) A grand and sombre staircase - dark, looming, pitiless - leads up from the Axes to the exhibits, allowing Libeskind to play one last trick on the visitor by luring him up a final flight that goes nowhere, before his voice gives way to the memoranda of Jewish history.
(4) As Bellfield refused to come to the court from his prison cell, judge Mr Justice Wilkie described him as a "cruel and pitiless killer" who had "not had the courage to come into court to face his victims and receive his sentence".
(5) The pitiless tone of social media has made this sort of exercise even harder to manage than before.
(6) Levi Bellfield refused to leave his prison cell to hear Mr Justice Wilkie sentence him to life without parole and condemn him as a "cruel and pitiless killer".
(7) She’s pitiless with him, even with the polite hat doffing on managing the global financial crisis and projecting Australian interests through the G20.
(8) How does she survive on a pittance in that pitiless pandemonium?
(9) Your sickening and pitiless conduct was in stark contrast to the compassion and bravery shown by the various women at the scene who tended to Lee Rigby's body and who challenged what you had done and said.
(10) He added: "He is marked out as a cruel and pitiless killer."
(11) These stories are cut-glass beauties, pitiless and hard-edged and constantly poking fun at the pretensions of the middle and upper classes.
(12) Earlier the judge who sentenced "cruel and pitiless" Bellfield to life for her murder and kidnap dismissed the jury, which was still deliberating on allegations that Bellfield had tried to abduct another girl, Rachel Cowles, then 11, the day before Milly vanished.
(13) The most recent synopsis for The Hateful Eight suggests the film “follows the steadily ratcheting tension that develops after a blizzard diverts a stagecoach from its route, and traps a pitiless and mistrustful group which includes a competing pair of bounty hunters, a renegade Confederate soldier, and a female prisoner in a saloon in the middle of nowhere”.
(14) To suffer the humility of failing courage in face of pitiless terror.
(15) In the article, for French magazine L’Obs, the correspondent suggested China’s “pitiless repression” of the Uighurs was to blame for a tide of deadly violence around the country, including bomb and knife attacks on civilians.
(16) The towering historian of the left EP Thompson agreed with him, and conjured a pitiless elite of aristocratic Whigs, unrelenting in the exhibition of authority.
(17) A brilliantly learned man with a pitiless mind and a kind eye.
(18) Pallas Athena, the Greek god of wisdom, becomes, in Klimt's painting of her, a shining warrior with pitiless eyes: wisdom frozen into dogma.
(19) "Everywhere the same hard, grim, pitiless sign of battle and war.
(20) The environment of a group such as Islamic State, created around a cult of extreme violence and a worldview that dehumanises all outside the organisation, can quickly turn an individual from a misguided insurgent into a pitiless terrorist killer, more than happy to execute a defenceless hostage with a knife, on camera.
Remorseless
Definition:
(a.) Being without remorse; having no pity; hence, destitute of sensibility; cruel; insensible to distress; merciless.
Example Sentences:
(1) Labour will then be challenged – remorselessly, day after day – to back these measures or face that most familiar of charges: that it is planning a tax bombshell (with the added piquancy that this time the increase is needed simply to pour money into what will be billed as a broken welfare system).
(2) Unable to stand or swallow and forced to communicate through a computer, John Close, 54, a former musician, chose suicide in 2003 as his body succumbed to the remorseless grip of motor neurone disease.
(3) But the bedeviled foray also works as a potent allegory on the slow, vice-like workings of conscience, as guilt hunts down the protagonists with the shrieking remorselessness of Greek furies.
(4) When they took the lead through Omar Gonzalez’s first-half header it had been coming, but not so much through frantic pressure as from the kind of remorselessly confident performance that characterises this team when they’re on form, as they had been in winning five of their previous six.
(5) The underlying trends in carbon pollution and resource use are still driving us remorselessly towards a painful crash, as a recent reassessment of the original 1972 Limits to Growth study has highlighted.
(6) There, proprietorial and remorselessly downbeat, like the ogre in Shrek, stands MigrationWatch UK.
(7) It’s a remorseless process of winnowing down, from which only one worthy champion can emerge* and the Guardian is here the whole way through, with spoiler alerts roughly every minute, having read the book (Klinsi turns out to have been a wolf all along...) One of tonight’s teams is playing roughly a game a minute at the moment — Confederations Cup and Gold Cup scheduling saw Jamaica’s game against Mexico moved to earlier this week — and that 1-0 loss was the first of three games the Jamaicans will play in eight days (Mexico are doing the same thing).
(8) Speaking without notes and saying he was at the start of a eight-month job interview ahead of May’s election, the Labour leader focused remorselessly on health and the crisis in living standards, including a six-point plan to improve Britain over the next 10 years.
(9) He is brutal and remorseless, because he is not himself.
(10) Her gold armour is terrifying, her gaze as remorseless as the logic of diplomacy that would shortly unleash the psychosis of the first world war.
(11) Thoreau's purpose is to reconcile us, after centuries of hazy anthropocentricity, to Nature as it is, relentless and remorseless.
(12) But Ali said it was "the closest thing to dying" - while Frazier, who had beaten up his enemy remorselessly, was plunged into near darkness when his only good eye was sealed shut in the last few rounds.
(13) I feared it had come back to biological remorselessness again.
(14) Because in Minecraft the night is full of horrors – spiders, skeletons, zombies and camouflaged creepers, all of which have an eerie ability to pursue you relentlessly and remorselessly.
(15) In a video conference with Merkel and the new French president, François Hollande, ahead of last month's G8 summit at Camp David, the prime minister recited passages from a speech in Manchester in which he warned of a "remorseless logic" that stronger parts of a single currency help weaker parts.
(16) Now that we have edged away from the clifftop, the remaining question – a question made all the more urgent by yesterday's figures – is whether we are set to succumb to the slow, remorseless slide.
(17) This "conceptualised" work has been regurgitated remorselessly since the 1960s, over and over and over again.
(18) Later in my relationship with him I learned that he could also be remorseless and harsh – but then we were, after all, political opponents.
(19) That said, the costs of PIP and its predecessors have been on a remorseless rising curve since the early 1990s.
(20) It never was credible that the many aspects of this country’s ties with its closest neighbours and most important trading partners could be renegotiated to the remorseless timetable that kicked in when Mrs May invoked article 50.