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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
remorseless
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ A remorseless gray drizzle fell all day long.
▪ Farley was shown to be a remorseless killer and a chronic liar.
▪ the remorseless advance of the invading army
▪ The remorseless spread of the virus has led to the deaths of thousands.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Ash and sugar maple trees were shooting up among the apple trees in the remorseless struggle for light.
▪ But the pressure for productivity has sometimes been remorseless.
▪ He offered no rebuttal to those who called him a remorseless animal.
▪ It took them four hours to decide that this vicious, remorseless killer should die.
▪ It was endowed with an endless capacity for multiplication and a remorseless urge to advance.
▪ On the main line, the remorseless reduction in fleet sizes resulted in Mark 3 vehicles steadily being more predominant.
▪ The room was silent, apart from the hollow and remorseless tick of a grandfather clock in the corner.
▪ The sea is remorseless and patient.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Remorseless

Remorseless \Re*morse"less\, a. Being without remorse; having no pity; hence, destitute of sensibility; cruel; insensible to distress; merciless. ``Remorseless adversaries.''
--South. ``With remorseless cruelty.''
--Milton.

Syn: Unpitying; pitiless; relentless; unrelenting; implacable; merciless; unmerciful; savage; cruel. [1913 Webster] -- Re*morse"less*ly, adv. -- Re*morse"less*ness, n.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
remorseless

1590s, from remorse + -less. Related: Remorselessly; remorselessness.

Wiktionary
remorseless

a. 1 without remorse, mercy or pity 2 unyielding or relentless

WordNet
remorseless

adj. without mercy or pity; "an act of ruthless ferocity"; "a monster of remorseless cruelty" [syn: pitiless, ruthless, unpitying]

Usage examples of "remorseless".

I was a remorseless extra-biller, and it seemed to me that the more exacting I was, the more eager my aporetics and dismal sufferers were to reward me for my attentions.

But we in the millennial neurosis situation are surrounded by perpetual, remorseless reinforcement of our grief.

The extensive, various learning, massive, penetrating mind, and remorseless logical consistency, of Augustine, enabled him to gather up the loose, floating theological elements and notions of the time, and generalize them into a complete system, in striking harmony, indeed, with the general character and drift of patristic thought, but carried out more fully in its details and applied more unflinchingly in its principles than had been done before, and therefore in some of its dogmas outstripping the current convictions of his contemporaries.

The torpedo automatically went to continuous pinging, increasing to maximum speed as it homed in on its target like the remorseless robot it was.

The yell of the stormers was answered by the remorseless roar of the Mausers and the deep-chested shouts of the farmers.

In considering the policy to be adopted for suppressing the insurrection I have been anxious and careful that the inevitable conflict for this purpose shall not degenerate into a violent and remorseless revolutionary struggle.

Predominant over all was the stately figure of Hassan of Aleppo, that benignant, remorseless being, that terrible guardian of the holy relic who directed the murderous operations.

Remorseless, he pushed the dead gnoll to the ground beside him and moved to calm Tarl.

A romantic obscurity would have hung over the expedition to Egypt, and he would have escaped the perpetration of those crimes which have incarnadined his soul with a deeper dye than that of the purple for which he committed themthose acts of perfidy, midnight murder, usurpation, and remorseless tyranny, which have consigned his name to universal execration, now and forever.

I had it to myself now, and as I stood there listening to the wind rattling the door on its latch a variety of draughts whistled round me and a remorseless drip-drip from the broken pantiles on the roof sent icy droplets trickling over my head and neck.

They had gone back to the upper breaches, and there the redcoats, helped by their remorseless cannon, had prevailed again, and Bappoo knew the Outer Fort was lost.

How those peach-skinned girls must have screamed and the downy striplings by them felt their dimpled knees knock together, as the mad flood of barbarians came pouring over from the forest, and long ago stormed their citadels like a stream of red lava, as deadly, as irresistible, as remorseless!

AMNAT is within 72 hours of putting an impregnable string of antimissile satellites on line, and the remorseless logic of game theory compels SOVWAR to go SACPOP while it still has the chance.

She looked wistful, and Prudence wondered if she would have like to have gone with her instead of staying in the drawing-room listening to Aunt Beatrix, who, kind though she was, was a remorseless talker.

Remorseless as jackals, the foot soldiers swarmed over them—driving poniards and misericordes through mail and joints between plates, smashing in armets and breastplates with hammers and axes.