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as in uncompromising
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as in resentful
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Recent Examples of unforgiving
But don’t forget: visiting the desert, and doing it well, is typically going to involve driving on unpaved surfaces, hiking or recreating in unforgiving temperatures, and doing all that a long way away from other people, which exponentially increases your consequences should something go wrong.
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Wes Siler, Outside Online, 27 Mar. 2025
The former feeling stems from learning at a young age to see the world as an unforgiving, arduous place.
—Ben Travers, IndieWire, 23 Mar. 2025
In the first teaser trailer, out March 20, star Leonardo DiCaprio pensively sips a beer, intercut with shots of a machine-gun-shooting pregnant woman, a baby, and an unforgiving desert.
—Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 20 Mar. 2025
But as Natalia is thrust into an unforgiving world and forced to grow up too fast, Reid’s performance takes on a world-weary tone.
—Alison Herman, Variety, 19 Mar. 2025
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Wes Siler, Outside Online, 27 Mar. 2025
The former feeling stems from learning at a young age to see the world as an unforgiving, arduous place.
—Ben Travers, IndieWire, 23 Mar. 2025
In the first teaser trailer, out March 20, star Leonardo DiCaprio pensively sips a beer, intercut with shots of a machine-gun-shooting pregnant woman, a baby, and an unforgiving desert.
—Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 20 Mar. 2025
But as Natalia is thrust into an unforgiving world and forced to grow up too fast, Reid’s performance takes on a world-weary tone.
—Alison Herman, Variety, 19 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unforgiving
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Through her cookbooks and teaching – and an uncompromising commitment to Italian tradition – her impact was felt in millions of American home kitchens. CLOSING NIGHT FILM LOVERS dir.—
Addie Morfoot,
Variety,
19 Mar. 2025
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And despite the overt inflation in almost every regard, Cadillac clearly believes the uncompromising urban buyer who wants power, panache, and plenty of room for the fam will eventually decide to go electric.—
Michael Teo Van Runkle,
Ars Technica,
17 Mar. 2025
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Seimetz’s Paula acts as an antagonistic force against Agnes, resentful of her presence and wishing for a child of her own.—
Harrison Richlin,
IndieWire,
31 Mar. 2025
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In hospital attacks, unlike random mass shootings elsewhere, the shooter is often targeting somebody, sometimes resentful about the care given a relative who died, Sem added.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
Newsweek,
20 Mar. 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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His writing reflects a global perspective, diverse experiences, and an unyielding quest for knowledge.—
William Jones,
USA TODAY,
25 Mar. 2025
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What's particularly cruel about that reality is that after years of dealing with questions about his weight, the former Duke Blue Devil star played a career-high 70 games in 2023-24.—
Bobby Krivitsky,
Forbes.com,
1 Apr. 2025
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As poor, lost, beautiful Dorian becomes more and more shallow and cruel—with only the portrait locked away in his attic reflecting the decay of his body and soul—Williams and Snook together locate Wilde’s evocation of a particularly insidious kind of societal cancer.—
Sara Holdren,
Vulture,
27 Mar. 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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Take Stallone’s troubled Vietnam vet, Rambo, who hates prejudiced cops, duplicitous CIA agents and sadistic Soviet lieutenant colonels (not in that order).—
John DeVore,
Rolling Stone,
31 Mar. 2025
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Real fans, however, know that Grey’s Anatomy is actually an emotional torture device overseen by the brilliant and sadistic Shonda Rhimes, an agonizing exercise in grief and loss delivered in weekly installments.—
Elizabeth Logan,
Glamour,
27 Mar. 2025
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Glioblastoma is the most common type of malignant brain tumor.—
Jon Hamilton,
NPR,
25 Mar. 2025
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Love's death was announced by her family on Sunday, March 23, in a post on X. Love, the first Black Republican woman elected to Congress, was diagnosed with glioblastoma, a malignant brain tumor, in 2022.—
Meredith Kile,
People.com,
24 Mar. 2025
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“Unforgiving.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unforgiving. Accessed 11 Apr. 2025.
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