(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.
Unkind
Definition:
(a.) Having no race or kindred; childless.
(a.) Not kind; contrary to nature, or the law of kind or kindred; unnatural.
(a.) Wanting in kindness, sympathy, benevolence, gratitude, or the like; cruel; harsh; unjust; ungrateful.
Example Sentences:
(1) Clearly, therefore, image is everything, especially in a world that can still be unkind to geeky people venturing out in public wearing their latest invention.
(2) You know, I don't mean to be unkind but I think you should put your phone down because you're just being a dick, really, just enjoy the gig because it's a better … it's a dick job, filming the show.
(3) Somehow, British zoos still enjoy a protected, deeply forgiving space, in a nation of pet lovers, for manifest unkindness towards animals.
(4) Mottling of teeth can have significant psychological impact on patients--particularly on adolescents, who may be subjected to much unkind teasing.
(5) This agenda might unkindly be described as systematic anti-liberalism with a seasoning of resentment and paranoia.
(6) The place to go in parliament for unkind evaluations of Miliband’s legacy is the Labour benches.
(7) But sometimes the revelations come fast, and when they do, they are usually particularly unkind.
(8) But clearly results have been immeasurably more crushing and unkind than I could ever have feared.
(9) I'd forgotten quite how swathey it was, rather unkindly imagining literary novelists and Big Thinkers in stripped-pine north London would be over-represented.
(10) And while Özil is allowed to have a poor game, it is hard to block out the memory of those unkind whispers on his departure from Madrid about his conditioning and stamina.
(11) Irony Steven Friedman , director of Rhodes and Johannesburg universities, said: "It has to be said that one of the great ironies of the debates about how we should receive Barack Obama is that, while a lot of South Africans are very sympathetic to him because he's the first African-American president, "I don't think that it's unkind to say that he's done absolutely nothing for this continent.
(12) I got to know him quite well after that and never once did I see him being unkind or inconsiderate to people.
(13) The academic Steve Bruce once unkindly stated: "When Ulster Protestants talk about being British, it is clear that the Britain they have in mind is no more recent than the 1950s, and often their points of reference are positively Victorian."
(14) Unkind though it is to remind him of his own cruel witticism aimed at Gordon Brown when he was at his weakest, there is now more than something of Mr Bean about Dr Cable.
(15) If modern life is unkind to our mental health, it’s no doubt in part because so many young people fear that admission of vulnerability will affect their employment, or their relationships, at a time when their futures are already far less clear than those of their parents.
(16) The results of this study lend weight to the argument that those who wish to have their facial abnormalities reduced may be accurately reporting that society is unkind to them.
(17) History tends to be unkind to those who embrace the evil practices of those they once denounced.
(18) Ruben Loftus-Cheek provided the visitors’ second, sliding a pass through the centre for Oscar to collect before McFadzean was aware of his presence, the finish crisply clipped into the far corner from an unkind angle.
(19) The crime also inspired a Bollywood film – on which MacKeown was never consulted, but later said “was not unkind” in its depiction of her daughter.
(20) On Thursday, as one SNP fundraising leaflet unkindly but accurately put it, the party has a chance to “complete the set”, making it the dominant force in all areas of Scotland’s political life.