The soldiers were pitiless toward their enemy.
gave the beggar in the street a pitiless look and kept on walking
Recent Examples on the WebPalomas are sweet and tart and bright and preternaturally refreshing, a worthy match for the pitiless heat of the Mexican summer, and deployed in great numbers whenever a little reprieve is in order.—Jason O'Bryan, Robb Report, 1 Aug. 2024 Is it not fated to a pitiless future of every man for himself?—Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 18 July 2024 At heart, In a Violent Nature isn’t an art film playing on horror tropes but something like the inverse: a pitiless old-school slasher that simply takes a roundabout and rather scenic path to the usual scuzzy thrills.—A.a. Dowd, Vulture, 31 May 2024 Get Citation Request Reprint Permissions Play Download Article In the first lecture of any introduction to international relations class, students are typically warned of the pitiless consequences of anarchy.—Jonathan Kirshner, Foreign Affairs, 29 Jan. 2021 See all Example Sentences for pitiless
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