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as in uncompromising
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as in resentful
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Recent Examples of unforgiving
The results showed that when people hold themselves to unforgiving standards but feel unable to manage stress effectively, their risk for emotional burnout and chronic distress increases.
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Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 3 July 2025
The comedy world is tough, and the industry is unforgiving.
—Audrey Gibbs, The Tennessean, 2 July 2025
Nerve The business environment today is fast, unforgiving and always on.
—Suzy Welch, CNBC, 17 June 2025
Despite playing at Michigan State – a school notorious for being unforgiving toward freshmen – Richardson was one of the most productive players in the country.
—Mat Issa, Forbes.com, 24 June 2025
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Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 3 July 2025
The comedy world is tough, and the industry is unforgiving.
—Audrey Gibbs, The Tennessean, 2 July 2025
Nerve The business environment today is fast, unforgiving and always on.
—Suzy Welch, CNBC, 17 June 2025
Despite playing at Michigan State – a school notorious for being unforgiving toward freshmen – Richardson was one of the most productive players in the country.
—Mat Issa, Forbes.com, 24 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unforgiving
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Sparked by the good early form of James Maddison, Tottenham briefly looked like title contenders, with an incredibly uncompromising form of football.—
Michael Cox,
New York Times,
7 June 2025
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Hindu nationalist Prime Minister Narendra Modi has pushed a more uncompromising position on the contested land.—
Rhea Mogul,
CNN Money,
14 May 2025
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China was getting rich, and Britain was growing resentful.—
Sam Kelly,
Time,
8 July 2025
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Because actor Bella Brown has been directed to become resentful, the last section of her song is robbed of pathos.—
David Benedict,
Variety,
1 July 2025
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Looming over everything is the unyielding passage of time, from the quickly dwindling daylight to the players’ creaking knees.—
Taylor Antrim,
Vogue,
21 July 2025
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The unyielding door was at once a relief and a reprimand.—
Clare Sestanovich,
New Yorker,
13 July 2025
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Each of us should demand our local leaders challenge every one of the immoral and cruel state laws and the Gestapo-like raids and inhumane detainments carried out by ICE agents.—
Letters to the Editor,
The Orlando Sentinel,
15 July 2025
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Even critics who considered his policies cruel and racist – and there were many – admitted that behind the bluster there was the charm of a true believer.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
12 July 2025
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Yet for wealthy donors, who now account for the majority of charitable giving, the Senate bill is decidedly uncharitable.—
Robert Frank,
CNBC,
3 July 2025
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Suggesting that a white male president of a certain age hears a piece of bad news and drops dead in the Oval seemed uncharitable.—
Katie Campione,
Deadline,
5 June 2025
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Stewart’s switch from his usual snark to imitate Colbert’s buffoonery proved how spiteful and irreligious political humor has become since the left’s worship of Barack Obama and subsequent persecution of President Trump.—
Armond White,
National Review,
25 July 2025
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This dramatic change in the law comes a year and a half after a ProPublica investigation showed how the hotline had been weaponized by jealous exes, spiteful landlords and others who endlessly called in baseless allegations.—
Eli Hager,
ProPublica,
20 June 2025
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Hotel Fear is very difficult viewing, and the film’s treatment of Rosa borders on the sadistic.—
Erik Morse,
Vogue,
26 June 2025
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MacLeod inevitably winds up facing off against the Kurgan (Clancy Brown), a sadistic and otherwise nameless warrior who has been hunting other immortals for centuries.—
Michileen Martin,
MSNBC Newsweek,
20 June 2025
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There is just too much market demand for evidence that Trump and his works are wholly malignant.—
The Editors,
National Review,
7 July 2025
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Common types of adrenal tumors include adrenal adenomas (benign), adrenal carcinomas (malignant and prone to spreading) peochromocrytomas, and paragangliomas.—
Maria Azzurra Volpe,
MSNBC Newsweek,
18 June 2025
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“Unforgiving.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unforgiving. Accessed 30 Jul. 2025.
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