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pitilessness

/pit-i-lis, pit-ee-/US // ˈpɪt ɪ lɪs, ˈpɪt i- //UK // (ˈpɪtɪlɪs) //

无情无义,无情,无同情心,无奈

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : feeling or showing no pity; merciless: pitiless criticism of his last novel.

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Examples

  • And his pitiless beliefs would be no stranger to the political discourse of today.

  • Efficiency may seem a pitiless term to use but it does have meaning.

  • I shall bring him forth and shine on him the pitiless light of history.

  • If they complained, they received a no doubt well-deserved and pitiless beating.

  • We thus remember Portnoy, impaling with pitiless thrusts invasive mothers, plugged-up fathers, dizzying shikses in heat.

  • Whenever she was unhappy she felt herself at bay against a pitiless world, and a kind of animal secretiveness possessed her.

  • She heard the sound of the snow crunching under a heavy step, and knew that the pitiless spy was on her track.

  • Now an artist who feels restraint is pitiless; he stays away, or laughs it to scorn.

  • Princes, magistrates, and judges become inhuman and pitiless as soon as there is a question of the interests of religion.

  • He gave up praying to the pitiless, who could look down and laugh at his death-agony, and he cried upon the absent only.