pitiless

Example Sentences

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“Amongst Women” revolves around Michael Moran, a widowed farmer who rules his family with pitiless vigor.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 9, 2026

As Ambrose Pierce wrote, “Patriotism is as fierce as a fever, pitiless and the grave, blind as a stone and irrational as a headless man.”

From Salon • May 17, 2025

After the pitiless grind of junior year, we are all determined to enjoy our family’s final days in high school.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 12, 2024

Yet what happens when power descends, razing that village to the ground and remaking it in its own pitiless image?

From New York Times • Mar. 30, 2023

None of the latter's children had looked so much like him, not even Aureliano José, particularly in respect to the prominent cheekbones and the firm and rather pitiless line of the lips.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez