Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a remorseless manner; without remorse.
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- adverb Done without
remorse ; in aremorseless manner.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb without pity; in a merciless manner
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Examples
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"In other words," remorselessly, "you question my right to wield the probe.
The Dominant Dollar Lester [Illustrator] Ralph 1893
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Now, it's become almost a cliche these days to warn against "the kind of remorselessly monopolist accounts of capitalism that act as a kind of intellectual and political bulldozer," and thereby overlook real possibilities of resistance and a new sort of politics (I am quoting Nigel Thrift,
Warren Ellis 2009
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The undeniable power of street art is that it aids in reshaping the lifeless urban horror we have remorselessly constructed for ourselves in the dubious name of progress.
Graffiti: the Estadio Azteca and Mexico City's new wave muralists 2009
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The wolf-pack still clung to the flank of the cariboo-herd, singling out the weak and the big with calf, and pulling them down as remorselessly as were it a thousand, thousand generations into the past.
“The Kipling of the Klondike”: Naturalism in London's Early Fiction 2010
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Mutant Chronicles (2009) - What's not to like in a movie about mutant hordes, created by ancient crashed alien ship, menacing, and killing remorselessly, a future Earth's populace in a WW I meets vaugely steampunk setting?
March 2010 2010
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We must bite the bullet of health care costs that escalate remorselessly from year to year, Shriver wrote.
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But while he could not understand, he saw the terror it created, and resolved to exploit it as remorselessly as would any modern trader a choice bit of merchandise.
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He looked tired; yet somehow, with that marvelous mechanism of a body that was his, he drove on, ever on, remorselessly on.
Chapter V 2010
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They are driven to it, because they are pressed remorselessly against subsistence.
THE HUMAN DRIFT 2010
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Wild tomatoes, which had gone to seed or been remorselessly hoed out from the beginning of Berande, were foraged for salads, soups, and sauces.
Chapter 7 2010
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