Definitions

remorseless

[ri-mawrs-lis] / rɪˈmɔrs lɪs /

ADJECTIVE

without guilt in spite of wrongdoing

Synonyms

WEAK

avaricious barbarous bloody callous cruel fierce forbidding greedy grim hard hard-bitten hard-hearted hardened harsh impenitent implacable inexorable inhuman inhumane insensitive intolerant merciless murderous obdurate pitiless relentless rigorous ruthless sanguinary savage shameless sour tough tyrannical uncompassionate uncontrite unforgiving unmerciful unregenerate unrelenting unremitting unrepenting unyielding vindictive

Antonyms

WEAK

ashamed guilty remorseful sad sorry

Example Sentences

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Remorseless man, dare you do this, And hope to live?

From Representative Plays by American Dramatists: 1856-1911: Francesca da Rimini by Moses, Montrose Jonas

Remorseless oppression of the people, for the purpose of raising money to be spent on the duke's costly whims, became the order of the day.

From The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller by Thomas, Calvin

Each follows each Remorseless and indifferent as Nature Is to each creature.

From Household Gods by Crowley, Aleister

Remorseless grown, the demon of the storm Swept from his grasp her trembling, fragile form.

From As I Remember Recollections of American Society during the Nineteenth Century by Gouverneur, Marian

The sailor's woes drew forth no sigh; No hand would close the sailor's eye; Remorseless, his pale corse they gave, Unshrouded, to the friendly wave.

From A Journal of a Young Man of Massachusetts, 2nd ed. Late A Surgeon On Board An American Privateer, Who Was Captured At Sea By The British, In May, Eighteen Hundred And Thirteen, And Was Confined First, At Melville Island, Halifax, Then At Chatham, In England ... And Last, At Dartmoor Prison. Interspersed With Observations, Anecdotes And Remarks, Tending To Illustrate The Moral And Political Characters Of Three Nations. To Which Is Added, A Correct Engraving Of Dartmoor Prison, Representing The Massacre Of American Prisoners, Written By Himself. by Waterhouse, Benjamin

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