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Vinony

remorseless

adjective

  1. pitiless/cruel/unrepentant
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adj

Etymology: Etymology tree English remorse Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁- Proto-Indo-European *lewHs-der. Proto-Germanic *leusaną Proto-Germanic *lausaz Proto-Germanic *-lausaz Proto-West Germanic *-laus Old English -lēas Middle English -les English -less English remorseless From remorse + -less.

  1. Without remorse, mercy or pity.
  2. Unyielding or relentless.

    “She was, in fact, constitutionally impervious to statistics and preferred to study the be-headphoned group of fifteen or so lethargic wanderers who were taking even less notice of the remorseless squawkings than she was.”