| 单词 | remorseless |
| 释义 | remorseless (once / 2682 pages) adj A person who is remorseless doesn't feel any guilt. If you're remorseless, you don't feel bad at all — even if you've done something terrible. When someone is remorseless, that person has no feeling of pity for people who have been hurt. If you're remorseless, you have no conscience — essentially, you're cruel and ruthless. A remorseless killer doesn't care about her victim, and a remorseless critic doesn't worry about hurting someone's feelings with his harsh words. Remorse is regret, and it's rooted in the Latin word remordere, "to vex or disturb," or literally, "to bite back." WORD FAMILYremorseless: remorselessly+/remorse: remorseful, remorseless, remorses/remorseful: remorsefully, unremorseful/unremorseful: unremorsefully USAGE EXAMPLESBecause of his autism, they wrote, he "has often been mistakenly perceived as cold, callous, or remorseless." US News(Oct 19, 2016) More than one acquaintance describes Rogerson as a “psychopath” but the apparently remorseless killer has never undergone a psychiatric assessment of any depth, McNab says. The Guardian(Oct 01, 2016) The remorseless focus on the elite has drawbacks. Economist(Aug 25, 2016) adj without mercy or pity a monster of remorseless cruelty Syn pitiless, ruthless, unpitying merciless, unmerciful having or showing no mercy |
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