as in ruthless
not sorry for having done wrong
she was unrepentant about getting rid of her ex-roommate's junk
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Recent Examples of unrepentant
The courts may find themselves in the same position my mother did all those years ago, facing an unrepentant rule-breaker who dares them to do something about it.
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Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 17 Feb. 2025
If a Strand tote marked its wearer as an old-school city dweller, a McNally bag — increasingly ubiquitous as the years went by — had a cachet of its own, signaling membership in a stylish reading community that was unrepentant about both the reading and the style.
—Matthew Schneier, Vulture, 29 Jan. 2025
People who were utterly unrepentant for assaulting law enforcement.
—NBC News, 26 Jan. 2025
America’s least godly president went to church surrounded by his most ardent supporters, still unrepentant for ghastly sins against our republic, most notably his inspiration of the Jan. 6 insurrection that attempted to overthrow an election in 2020.
—David Mastio, The Mercury News, 22 Jan. 2025
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Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 17 Feb. 2025
If a Strand tote marked its wearer as an old-school city dweller, a McNally bag — increasingly ubiquitous as the years went by — had a cachet of its own, signaling membership in a stylish reading community that was unrepentant about both the reading and the style.
—Matthew Schneier, Vulture, 29 Jan. 2025
People who were utterly unrepentant for assaulting law enforcement.
—NBC News, 26 Jan. 2025
America’s least godly president went to church surrounded by his most ardent supporters, still unrepentant for ghastly sins against our republic, most notably his inspiration of the Jan. 6 insurrection that attempted to overthrow an election in 2020.
—David Mastio, The Mercury News, 22 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unrepentant
Adjective
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But when the ruthless Mafia boss Nicola Grimaldi discovers his young son has been kidnapped and murdered, the suspect and Grimaldi’s former friend Vito seeks refuge with police.—
Leo Barraclough,
Variety,
9 Apr. 2025
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Russo, who has avoided serious injury and is set to return to play for Arsenal this month, is an out-and-out centre-forward, a grafter who uses her strength to take care of the ball and stitch play, but is also becoming a more ruthless penalty-box striker.—
Charlotte Harpur,
New York Times,
9 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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For her part, having faced such criticism for over four decades, Newkirk remains blissfully impenitent.—
Jan Dutkiewicz,
Vox,
8 Aug. 2024
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Among the various allegations put forward are reports of drugging and fascist group chats, slave labour and foot photograph farms, with the brand’s impenitent founder Stephan Marsan at its centre.—
Daniel Rodgers,
Vogue,
12 Apr. 2024
Adjective
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Everybody else has no choice, really, other than to bring a cruel, narcissistic far-right leader to power.—
Isaac Chotiner,
New Yorker,
10 Apr. 2025
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The cruelest part is that the good ones are mixed with the bad ones.—
Matt Rivers,
ABC News,
9 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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And yet Melissa McCarthy’s gut-busting bridesmaid, Megan, went the extra mile down the path of crazy, from her unabashed man-hunting to her unashamed puppy kidnapping.—
Marco della Cava,
USA TODAY,
12 Feb. 2025
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Rickey was unashamed of his brilliance, which meant he couldn’t be dissuaded from proclaiming it.—
Marcus Thompson II,
The Athletic,
25 Dec. 2024
Adjective
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While public opinion of Heidi and Spencer has certainly shifted dramatically this year, their reign over pop culture in the early 2000s can't be denied, since their shameless love of being in the spotlight literally had no limits.—
EW Staff,
EW.com,
20 Mar. 2025
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Like the majority of the Victorian British public, Jokanaan is intimidated by Salome’s shameless sexuality and wants nothing to do with her.—
E.R. Zarevich,
Smithsonian Magazine,
4 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Luxury has risen to prominence thanks to remorseless future-looking innovation, never by recooking the creations of the past.—
Stéphane JG Girod,
Forbes.com,
9 Apr. 2025
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The case rocked Britain, seeming to expose a remorseless serial killer who, prosecutors said, used a bizarre range of techniques to kill her tiny, often very premature, victims: Injecting them with air, overfeeding them with milk or contaminating their feeds with insulin.—
Megan Specia,
New York Times,
21 Mar. 2025
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