1
as in uncompromising
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as in resentful
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Recent Examples of unforgiving
Alabama uses tempo — relentless, unforgiving, exhausting tempo — as the fuel for averaging 90.8 points per game, tops in the nation.
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Jon Wilner, Mercury News, 26 Mar. 2025
Both Abby and Ellie experience an unforgiving, post-apocalyptic world,overcome by grief and anger.
—Barry Levitt, Time, 11 Apr. 2025
Many brands are moving away from the unforgiving fits of the past.
—Kristin Braswell, Travel + Leisure, 11 Apr. 2025
The Kings are holding onto a Play-In Tournament spot in the unforgiving Western Conference, but that’s only because the Phoenix Suns have cratered.
—David Aldridge, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2025
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Jon Wilner, Mercury News, 26 Mar. 2025
Both Abby and Ellie experience an unforgiving, post-apocalyptic world,overcome by grief and anger.
—Barry Levitt, Time, 11 Apr. 2025
Many brands are moving away from the unforgiving fits of the past.
—Kristin Braswell, Travel + Leisure, 11 Apr. 2025
The Kings are holding onto a Play-In Tournament spot in the unforgiving Western Conference, but that’s only because the Phoenix Suns have cratered.
—David Aldridge, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unforgiving
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Coogler presents a provocatively Africanist view of Black American experience, and does so with exuberant inventiveness; the uncompromising political essence of his allegorical vision is expressed with aesthetic delight.—
Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
17 Apr. 2025
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At one point, it is revealed that the polluting, tree-felling Iron Town is inhabited by society’s outcasts, people who would not be able to survive in the uncompromising deathscape of the natural world.—
Dani Di Placido,
Forbes.com,
31 Mar. 2025
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Smart or not, the deal also opened a rift between Bieber and Braun, with the former said to be resentful of the latter’s ballooning wealth.—
Shirley Halperin,
HollywoodReporter,
16 Apr. 2025
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In the book, Hoppus, 53, details years of rising tensions that ultimately led DeLonge to become distant and resentful.—
Rachel DeSantis,
People.com,
8 Apr. 2025
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Most impactful is the film’s focus on the adult son of Ramirez’s victim, whose anger seems so unyielding.—
Joe Reid,
Vulture,
28 Feb. 2025
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In any case, that scenario finds musical expression in an unyielding melody, hardly resting over off-kilter meters.—
Hannah Edgar,
Chicago Tribune,
5 Apr. 2025
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Such evidence could support the view that incessant loud noise amounts to torture or cruel treatment towards cetaceans, in turn galvanizing support for a new right to be free from such harm.—
David Gruber,
Time,
24 Apr. 2025
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But this is the cruel and unreasonable state of this Administration's deportation policy.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
MSNBC Newsweek,
24 Apr. 2025
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Danny is preparing her staff for an imminent natural disaster in this scene, so the tone’s quite serious already, and her opinion of Grey’s seems uncharitable at best.—
Rebecca Luther,
TVLine,
3 Apr. 2025
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An uncharitable interpretation of these findings would conclude that people with fibromyalgia are complainers.—
Peter Ubel,
Forbes.com,
26 Mar. 2025
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Several diss tracks followed, with the musicians hurling increasingly spiteful insults at each other relating to accusations of domestic abuse, exploitation and pedophilia.—
Winston Cho,
The Hollywood Reporter,
17 Mar. 2025
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The more spiteful Drake could smell a world of buff, misogynistic grifters taking hold and made sure to set up shop where the audience would be.—
Craig Jenkins,
Vulture,
7 Feb. 2025
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In the official trailer for the new season of Criminal Minds: Evolution, there’s more talk about serial killers, sadistic psychopaths, and Elias Voit — the notorious Sicarius Killer played by the enthusiastic Zach Gilford.—
Lynette Rice,
Deadline,
24 Apr. 2025
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Chroniclers and foreign travelers left accounts of the sadistic tortures and mass executions that were conducted with Ivan’s participation.—
Dina Khapaeva,
The Conversation,
22 Apr. 2025
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In 2024, Tina Knowles, 71, underwent a lumpectomy to have the malignant tumor removed.—
Sara Vallone,
Miami Herald,
22 Apr. 2025
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Based on breast imaging, AI tools can be used to better predict if a lesion is malignant and support clinical decision making.—
Eyal Shamir,
Forbes,
14 Mar. 2025
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“Unforgiving.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unforgiving. Accessed 2 May. 2025.
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