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Unpity

Unpity \Un*pit"y\, n. Want of piety. [Obs.]

Usage examples of "unpity".

That smile, so cold, so cruel, so unpitying, made Theos for a moment hate him, .

From Annuvin they had journeyed as though from the grave, their task only to bring death, unpitying, implacable as their own lifeless faces.

When close to the whale, in the very death-lock of the fight, he handled his unpitying lance coolly and off-handedly, as a whistling tinker his hammer.

How unpitying and relentless busy life met this new morrow, Earth, and sky, and man unheeding that her joy had passed away.

Octavian, battling with the quagmire, which seemed to have learned the rare art of giving way at all points without yielding an inch, saw his daughter slowly disappearing in the engulfing slush, her smeared face further distorted with the contortions of whimpering wonder, while from their perch on the pigsty roof the three children looked down with the cold unpitying detachment of the Parcae Sisters.

Day after day the same relentless sun, Night after night the same unpitying stars.

From row to row, from bench to bench, there glared upon him but merciless and unpitying eyes.

He lost no seen opportunity, however shameful, to add to his fortune or to amuse himself with the human race, which he regarded with the unpitying contempt characteristic of every cold nature born or risen to success.

This charming society is nearly extinct now: of the larger animals there only remain the bear, who minds his own business more thoroughly than any person I know, and the deer, who would like to be friendly with men, but whose winning face and gentle ways are no protection from the savageness of man, and who is treated with the same unpitying destruction as the snarling catamount.

Sir 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.

Kato regarded Sims, and continued to regard him, with the tranquil incuriosity of the unpitying East.