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单词 pitiless
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Definition of pitiless in English:

pitiless

adjective ˈpɪtɪləsˈpɪdiləs
  • 1Showing no pity; cruel.

    无情的;残酷的

    a pitiless executioner
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Her spirit had blazed the blinding blue of pure fury, and her soul had been filled with the purest black of the most pitiless executioner.
    • I would add a few refinements of my own devising, concessions to our cruel and pitiless modern age.
    • They were not, in other words, misunderstood, socially maladjusted, middle-class rebels but a pair of determined and pitiless economic vandals
    • But the pitiless character of his criticism diminishes these letters in this respect, even as it enlarges them in other ways.
    • Here the artist painstakingly compresses history into an unfathomable listing of dates and we become ‘a pitiless witness’.
    • The reviewer's pithy, pitiless conclusion: ‘Get real.’
    • He uses the mesh of the jungle screen to play on our fears of the unknown and the pitiless savagery that is the reality of nature.
    • It's a vicious ideology and it's sustained by violence and by the pitiless conversion of its own adherents into dumb weapons.
    • And doubtless in surveying American culture our pitiless foe finds much evidence to support such a malign view.
    • And his voice is so subtly ironic, and so pitiless - toward himself among others - that he makes Sebald look almost soft.
    • We must not let one side be ruthless, self-confident and organised: ‘It is civilization, pluralism and secularism that need pitiless and unapologetic fighters.’
    • Epitia argues for this course of action because she does not want to regard herself as ‘a pitiless and cruel woman.’
    • It was a brutal, vicious and pitiless attack in which you showed your victim no mercy.
    • They utterly failed to see how the event had changed everything, by revealing just how pitiless and ruthless our new opponent was prepared to be.
    • Did their pitiful cries and prayers rise into the night to a God who seemed deaf and pitiless as their cruel jailers?
    • Football is merciless and pitiless, and in a business sense Gill merely stated the obvious: no-one is indispensable.
    • ‘Now for the first time you have hurt me, you cruel, pitiless man are sleeping the sleep of death‘.
    • ‘A bounty hunter must be ruthless, pitiless, and merciless,’ he began sharply.
    • After this there was no fight; only heartless, pitiless slaughter.
    • The Russian military campaign has been pitiless.
    Synonyms
    merciless, ruthless, cruel, heartless
    1. 1.1 (especially of weather) unrelentingly harsh or severe.
      (尤指天气)十分恶劣的
      a night of pitiless rain
      Example sentencesExamples
      • He approaches me while I'm sheltering from the hideous, pitiless weather.
      • The thought of EU Trade Commissioner Peter Mandelson meeting a grisly end in the Brussels public toilet where he hoped to seek refuge from the inexorable advance of pitiless technology is not unpleasing.
      • He is a membrane between isolation and society, this man who crouches beneath his umbrella, navigating by guesswork in a pitiless storm that, having engulfed houses, streets and gutters, has deprived him of his bearings.
      • I used to think it was beautiful, but now the weather's my enemy, pitiless and uncaring as napalm and bear traps.
      • The figure was soaked through and through in his coat that ought to have been protecting him from the pitiless storm.
      • The pitiless showerhead continues to drench her, the water bearing her life's blood down the drain.

Derivatives

  • pitilessly

  • adverb ˈpɪtɪləsliˈpɪdilɪsli
    • Our land, and all in it, would have been destroyed mercilessly, as pitilessly as a wild elephant in a lotus pond destroys all its flowers.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Chavalit was ridiculed pitilessly in the domestic media.
      • The evidence of a wasted life is pitilessly clear.
      • Civil society is assaulted in the most criminal way by the most pitilessly reactionary force in the modern world.
      • A war during which the allies had pitilessly bombed us and we had died like mosquitoes.
  • pitilessness

  • noun ˈpɪtɪləsnəsˈpɪdiləsnəs
    • The showdown was fierce as both of them employed the basic rules of the trade: ruthlessness, mercilessness, and pitilessness.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The story is set in a sanguinary and sadistic age; but it leaves one with the sense that the Cossacks may ultimately have been unrivalled in their capacity for purely impulsive pitilessness, unlit by the faintest flickering of conscience.
      • Their pitilessness for those in power is to be feared more than any usurper's greedy heart.
      • He gazed down at Ataren with pitilessness building in his eyes.

Definition of pitiless in US English:

pitiless

adjectiveˈpidēləsˈpɪdiləs
  • Showing no pity; cruel.

    无情的;残酷的

    Example sentencesExamples
    • They utterly failed to see how the event had changed everything, by revealing just how pitiless and ruthless our new opponent was prepared to be.
    • Football is merciless and pitiless, and in a business sense Gill merely stated the obvious: no-one is indispensable.
    • The Russian military campaign has been pitiless.
    • After this there was no fight; only heartless, pitiless slaughter.
    • I would add a few refinements of my own devising, concessions to our cruel and pitiless modern age.
    • And doubtless in surveying American culture our pitiless foe finds much evidence to support such a malign view.
    • It's a vicious ideology and it's sustained by violence and by the pitiless conversion of its own adherents into dumb weapons.
    • Did their pitiful cries and prayers rise into the night to a God who seemed deaf and pitiless as their cruel jailers?
    • And his voice is so subtly ironic, and so pitiless - toward himself among others - that he makes Sebald look almost soft.
    • It was a brutal, vicious and pitiless attack in which you showed your victim no mercy.
    • ‘Now for the first time you have hurt me, you cruel, pitiless man are sleeping the sleep of death‘.
    • Her spirit had blazed the blinding blue of pure fury, and her soul had been filled with the purest black of the most pitiless executioner.
    • We must not let one side be ruthless, self-confident and organised: ‘It is civilization, pluralism and secularism that need pitiless and unapologetic fighters.’
    • He uses the mesh of the jungle screen to play on our fears of the unknown and the pitiless savagery that is the reality of nature.
    • But the pitiless character of his criticism diminishes these letters in this respect, even as it enlarges them in other ways.
    • The reviewer's pithy, pitiless conclusion: ‘Get real.’
    • ‘A bounty hunter must be ruthless, pitiless, and merciless,’ he began sharply.
    • Here the artist painstakingly compresses history into an unfathomable listing of dates and we become ‘a pitiless witness’.
    • They were not, in other words, misunderstood, socially maladjusted, middle-class rebels but a pair of determined and pitiless economic vandals
    • Epitia argues for this course of action because she does not want to regard herself as ‘a pitiless and cruel woman.’
    Synonyms
    merciless, ruthless, cruel, heartless
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