1
as in uncompromising
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as in resentful
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Recent Examples of unforgiving
Each and everyone deserves their place in the ramshackle capitalistic hellscape captured so effectively by Scott Pask’s production design and Jen Schriever’s unforgiving old-school office lighting.
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Greg Evans, Deadline, 31 Mar. 2025
Some of this falls on McDaniel to become a more demanding and unforgiving leader.
—Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 19 Mar. 2025
Gymnastics is one of the most unforgiving and unpredictable sports.
—Caroline Price, Forbes.com, 2 Apr. 2025
At its height, the nu-metal scene — dominated by cisgender white men— was seen as unforgiving, dangerous, and intolerant of women and people of color.
—Jessi Roti, Chicago Tribune, 1 Apr. 2025
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Greg Evans, Deadline, 31 Mar. 2025
Some of this falls on McDaniel to become a more demanding and unforgiving leader.
—Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 19 Mar. 2025
Gymnastics is one of the most unforgiving and unpredictable sports.
—Caroline Price, Forbes.com, 2 Apr. 2025
At its height, the nu-metal scene — dominated by cisgender white men— was seen as unforgiving, dangerous, and intolerant of women and people of color.
—Jessi Roti, Chicago Tribune, 1 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unforgiving
Adjective
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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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Chief among those are the stubbornness, hot-headedness and resentful pride that drove away Maryanne (The Righteous Gemstones’ Jennifer Nettles), his ex-wife and erstwhile performing partner, and their teenage son, Cade (Maxwell Jenkins).—
Angie Han,
HollywoodReporter,
1 Apr. 2025
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Season 1 was largely about a conflict over a room, the butting of heads between the privileged guests and the resentful staff.—
Erik Kain,
Forbes.com,
31 Mar. 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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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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Jokes that didn’t land with the squad The kids in Bad Influence say the pranks were the most cruel.—
Olivia B. Waxman,
Time,
9 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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Four women ultimately came forward and exposed Brightman’s sadistic scheme that prosecutors said lasted from around January 2022 through late 2023, shortly before his arrest by the feds.—
Molly Crane-Newman,
New York Daily News,
8 Apr. 2025
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First, there’s whatever sadistic fates the filmmakers have in mind for the characters, from being impaled by a forklift to having their faces plunged into the propeller of the Staten Island Ferry.—
Peter Debruge,
Variety,
3 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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The research also showed lower mortality risks from some forms of cancer and HIV and lower mortality rates for malignant neoplasms, HIV, and diabetes mellitus.—
Paul Smaglik,
Discover Magazine,
12 Mar. 2025
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“Unforgiving.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unforgiving. Accessed 22 Apr. 2025.
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