Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Having no pity; showing no compassion.

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  • adjective Not feeling or showing pity.

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  • adjective without mercy or pity

Etymologies

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un- +‎ pitying

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Examples

  • But not even this induces us; more foolish are we than any, putting golden necklaces about our servants and mules and horses, and neglecting our Lord who goes about naked, and passes from door to door, and ever stands at our outlets, and stretches forth His hands to us, but often regarding Him with unpitying eye; yet these very things He undergoes for our sake.

    Saints 2009

  • His description of what it is to live with a disease that immobilizes your limbs and your capacity for speech, but leaves you able to feel and remember, is pitiless and unpitying, but it is among the most touching vindications of the power of language that I have read.

    Twelve Months of Reading 2011

  • But not even this induces us; more foolish are we than any, putting golden necklaces about our servants and mules and horses, and neglecting our Lord who goes about naked, and passes from door to door, and ever stands at our outlets, and stretches forth His hands to us, but often regarding Him with unpitying eye; yet these very things He undergoes for our sake.

    Scripture 2009

  • How can such a nice, kind man write such cruel and unpitying music, one listener asked the composer at an early rehearsal.

    CBSO, Stephen Hough/Nelsons; Bamberg Symphony Orchestra/Nott – review 2012

  • His description of what it is to live with a disease that immobilizes your limbs and your capacity for speech, but leaves you able to feel and remember, is pitiless and unpitying, but it is among the most touching vindications of the power of language that I have read.

    Twelve Months of Reading 2011

  • But not even this induces us; more foolish are we than any, putting golden necklaces about our servants and mules and horses, and neglecting our Lord who goes about naked, and passes from door to door, and ever stands at our outlets, and stretches forth His hands to us, but often regarding Him with unpitying eye; yet these very things He undergoes for our sake.

    Jesus Christ 2009

  • It is unpitying that you are tired or broke or ill yourself.

    Which is worse, the terror of death or the terror of how I die? Part I Elizabeth McClung 2009

  • Philip was a voluptuary, that is, a completely selfish egotist, whose disposition and character resembled the rapier he wore, polished, keen, and brilliant, but inflexible and unpitying.

    My Aunt Margaret's Mirror 2008

  • Philip was a voluptuary, that is, a completely selfish egotist, whose disposition and character resembled the rapier he wore, polished, keen, and brilliant, but inflexible and unpitying.

    My Aunt Margaret's Mirror 2008

  • Oh wretch, unyielding and unpitying! where shall hereafter be clemency for thee! —

    Cecilia 2008

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