Definitions

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  • adverb In a way that is unforgiving

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  • adverb without forgiveness; in an unforgiving manner

Etymologies

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unforgiving +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • I was a bit out of sorts when we arrived due to the unforgivingly hot temperature and long walk from the El, and made for the restroom to regroup, which thankfully was stocked with fresh, plush towels.

    Chris Kompanek: On the Culture Front: Blackbird and L2O in Chicago Chris Kompanek 2011

  • I was a bit out of sorts when we arrived due to the unforgivingly hot temperature and long walk from the El, and made for the restroom to regroup, which thankfully was stocked with fresh, plush towels.

    Chris Kompanek: On the Culture Front: Blackbird and L2O in Chicago Chris Kompanek 2011

  • Serge writes about people caught in the tightening vice of an unforgivingly political world, but he never succumbs to the belief that this is the only world there is — that politics is, much less should be, the be-all and end-all of existence — any more than he supposes that there is any way of simply opting out, hands clean, of the political world.

    Deals 2010

  • I was a bit out of sorts when we arrived due to the unforgivingly hot temperature and long walk from the El, and made for the restroom to regroup, which thankfully was stocked with fresh, plush towels.

    Chris Kompanek: On the Culture Front: Blackbird and L2O in Chicago Chris Kompanek 2011

  • I was a bit out of sorts when we arrived due to the unforgivingly hot temperature and long walk from the El, and made for the restroom to regroup, which thankfully was stocked with fresh, plush towels.

    Chris Kompanek: On the Culture Front: Blackbird and L2O in Chicago Chris Kompanek 2011

  • I had no option but to test this immediately, and luckily he was right; because from Perfect View to the London Road, it is down, down, giddily and unforgivingly down.

    Britain's best views: Bath 2011

  • The month of February, cold and harsh, a blanket of white if we are so lucky, a breath of spring occasionally whispering in our ear, stuck unforgivingly somewhere between the rousing, glittery, festive end-of-the-year holiday season and the warming, welcoming arms of spring.

    Jamie Schler: Valentine's Day Flourless Chocolate Truffle Torte Jamie Schler 2011

  • The month of February, cold and harsh, a blanket of white if we are so lucky, a breath of spring occasionally whispering in our ear, stuck unforgivingly somewhere between the rousing, glittery, festive end-of-the-year holiday season and the warming, welcoming arms of spring.

    Jamie Schler: Valentine's Day Flourless Chocolate Truffle Torte Jamie Schler 2011

  • But German football is unforgivingly pragmatic, almost completely devoid of nostalgia.

    Lothar Matthäus seeks win over England to help end his German exile 2011

  • I was a bit out of sorts when we arrived due to the unforgivingly hot temperature and long walk from the El, and made for the restroom to regroup, which thankfully was stocked with fresh, plush towels.

    Chris Kompanek: On the Culture Front: Blackbird and L2O in Chicago Chris Kompanek 2011

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