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as in uncompromising
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as in resentful
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Recent Examples of unforgiving
Surviving on the unforgiving Antarctic ice sheet requires considerable skill and resourcefulness.
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Ingrid Newkirk, The Mercury News, 14 Feb. 2025
How else to explain the sudden drop into an unforgiving landscape?
—Erin Qualey, Vulture, 7 Feb. 2025
Bryant Wehmeyer, from the farming town of Jamaica, Iowa, described his childhood as austere and unforgiving.
—Dexter Filkins, The New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2025
The weeks surrounding the winter solstice — Dec. 21 — have little light, and can seem bleak and unforgiving.
—The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 3 Feb. 2025
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Ingrid Newkirk, The Mercury News, 14 Feb. 2025
How else to explain the sudden drop into an unforgiving landscape?
—Erin Qualey, Vulture, 7 Feb. 2025
Bryant Wehmeyer, from the farming town of Jamaica, Iowa, described his childhood as austere and unforgiving.
—Dexter Filkins, The New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2025
The weeks surrounding the winter solstice — Dec. 21 — have little light, and can seem bleak and unforgiving.
—The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 3 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unforgiving
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Some contemporary nationalisms, such as those in India, Russia, and Turkey, are animated by memories of territorial loss, while others have an uncompromising sense of the permanence and security of their borders.—
Foreign Affairs,
Foreign Affairs,
25 Feb. 2025
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Blocking an uncompromising Republican CR means Democrats would have to debate over blame for the shutdown.—
Richard McGahey,
Forbes,
20 Feb. 2025
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But much of the film is centered on her domestic life, cooking fish for a date who never shows up, entertaining friends and colleagues, melting down in the bathroom and receiving a rare visit from a resentful daughter.—
Julie Lasky,
New York Times,
21 Feb. 2025
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Stateless, unemployed, resentful, which other nation would risk its own stability to absorb 1.5 million hungry, frustrated, angry, heavily armed refugees?—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
Newsweek,
5 Feb. 2025
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The tree was of no great size, apparently being able to derive but a precarious living from its tenuous foothold in the unyielding stone.—
Frank C. Hibben,
Outdoor Life,
27 Feb. 2025
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Looming over everything is the unyielding passage of time, from the quickly dwindling daylight to the players’ creaking knees.—
Lisa Wong Macabasco,
Vogue,
13 Feb. 2025
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Immigration advocates call the crackdown cruel and wrongheaded and warn that many Latino U.S. citizens will likely suffer violations of their civil rights and possibly even get mistakenly deported.—
Dave Goldiner,
New York Daily News,
6 Mar. 2025
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As mere surrogates, the Trump-DeSantis fight to outdo each other through mean and cruel policies will go on.—
Letters to the Editor,
Orlando Sentinel,
6 Mar. 2025
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That’s perhaps an uncharitable read on what was overall a strong game by the Rangers, who allowed a tying goal to Artturi Lehkonen with 1:13 remaining, then couldn’t convert on an overtime power play.—
Peter Baugh,
The Athletic,
15 Jan. 2025
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Mangum wasn’t the only fraudster who preyed on the Left’s uncharitable assumptions about young white men, in particular, but non-minorities broadly.—
The Editors,
National Review,
17 Dec. 2024
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Biden’s mean-spirited, spiteful actions are only more reasons for Americans to vote Republican in future elections.—
Sun Sentinel Editorial Board,
Sun Sentinel,
10 Jan. 2025
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Iannucci may spin stories of spiteful people, but Iannucci the person is different.—
John Baldoni,
Forbes,
22 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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The Rule of Jenny Pen stars Lithgow as Dave Crealy, a seemingly gentle man who secretly terrorizes the residents with a sadistic game involving the titular dementia doll.—
Simon Thompson,
Forbes,
5 Mar. 2025
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Galloway Township detectives busted up the sadistic operation after uncovering online invitations to a March 2024 event, scheduled to take place at a private residence with an arena built specifically to host rooster fights, authorities said.—
Brian Niemietz,
New York Daily News,
28 Feb. 2025
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Mia Love, the first Black Republican woman elected to Congress, is no longer responding to treatment for an aggressive and malignant brain tumor known as glioblastoma, with which she was diagnosed in 2022.—
Cara Lynn Shultz,
People.com,
3 Mar. 2025
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Small cell lung cancer (SCLC) is a highly malignant and very aggressive type of cancer responsible for about 13% of all lung cancers.—
Michael Franco,
New Atlas,
13 Feb. 2025
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“Unforgiving.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unforgiving. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.
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