Adjective : a pitying look. From Dictionary.com.
"What have you, then?" the unpitying Julia persisted. From Wordnik.com. [A Sheaf of Corn] Reference
He had Pekingese eyes, unpitying and slightly bulged. From Wordnik.com. [Breakfast At Tiffany's]
He looked at me with his unpitying, unblinking glance. From Wordnik.com. [The Beetle] Reference
It is unpitying that you are tired or broke or ill yourself. From Wordnik.com. [Which is worse, the terror of death or the terror of how I die? Part I] Reference
And vile men high in place were more unpitying than the blast. From Wordnik.com. [The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume VI The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century] Reference
There is nothing which the world dreads so much as an unpitying truth. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol 3 No 3, March 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
And the healthy shrank from the fevered ones, with hard, unpitying eye. From Wordnik.com. [The Poetical Works of Mrs. Leprohon] Reference
Oh wretch, unyielding and unpitying! where shall hereafter be clemency for thee! —. From Wordnik.com. [Cecilia] Reference
Death, unpitying death, had ruptured it, by prematurely carrying off the young husband. From Wordnik.com. [The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851] Reference
He should yield to neither hatred nor affection, but should be unsparing and unpitying. From Wordnik.com. [Lucian (b. c. 120, d. after 180)] Reference
“The same unpitying being who so cruelly rebuffed my poor father in his hour of crisis.”. From Wordnik.com. [Nevermore] Reference
So she fled; and after her came her remorseless, her unpitying pursuer, fear lent wings to her feet. From Wordnik.com. [Cord and Creese] Reference
Kato regarded Sims, and continued to regard him, with the tranquil incuriosity of the unpitying East. From Wordnik.com. [Angel With No Hands]
She sat in her chair, implacable and unpitying, and watched the scarlet form in its agony on the floor. From Wordnik.com. [The Thorn Birds]
It helps that Santayana wrote witty, pointed, frank and unpitying letters that beautifully reveal his mind. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of a Mind] Reference
Yet amid her many adorers, fair Betty, with the carelessness of inexperience, passed unpitying and fancy free. From Wordnik.com. [Tales from Many Sources Vol. V] Reference
I was as hard and unpitying as even your wife before your mother taught me to feel and relieve the demands of poverty. From Wordnik.com. [International Weekly Miscellany of Literature, Art, and Science — Volume 1, No. 4, July 22, 1850] Reference
Whom, indeed, have you seen but weary prisoners like myself, or else unpitying conquerors whose love would be your shame?. From Wordnik.com. [Continental Monthly , Vol. 6, No. 1, July, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy.] Reference
Amphitryon, together with warlike Iolaus, destroyed with the unpitying sword through the plans of Athene the spoil-driver. From Wordnik.com. [Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica] Reference
Hark! hear those rattling chains, hear that cry of despair and wail of anguish, as they die away in the unpitying distance. From Wordnik.com. [Clotel; or, The President's Daughter: A Narrative of Slave Life in the United States. By William Wells Brown, A Fugitive Slave, Author of "Three Years in Europe." With a Sketch of the Author's Life] Reference
It was the blacksmith whom I found hard and unimpressible as his own anvil, dark as his forge, and as unpitying as its flames. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 327, January, 1843] Reference
The door opened; in came the roar of Regent Street, the roar of traffic, impersonal, unpitying; and sunshine grained with dirt. From Wordnik.com. [Jacob's Room] Reference
For them there was nothing fearful in the stillness of their gloomy home, as they sat with stern, unpitying faces, gazing on the silent land beyond the ocean stream. From Wordnik.com. [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference
Did you not ward from me the scorn of unpitying folly?. From Wordnik.com. [Thaddeus of Warsaw] Reference
He was unpitying; his arms were folded; he made no sign. From Wordnik.com. [The Light of Scarthey] Reference
There is none in this small, harsh, unpitying old world. From Wordnik.com. [The Return of Peter Grimm Novelised From the Play] Reference
Besides, how can you indulge a disposition thus unpitying?. From Wordnik.com. [A Simple Story] Reference
Has our dear bower been destroyed by this unpitying storm?. From Wordnik.com. [The Sorrows of Young Werther] Reference
How unpitying and relentless busy life met this new morrow. From Wordnik.com. [Legends and Lyrics Part 2] Reference
Thy fell, unpitying purpose, remorseless monster, hath made me childless!. From Wordnik.com. [Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 (of 2)] Reference
It seems to me that I should hear some awful answer uttered with unpitying calmness. From Wordnik.com. [The Pharaoh and the Priest An Historical Novel of Ancient Egypt] Reference
And the sun watched it all with unpitying stare, and the September heat was maddening. From Wordnik.com. [Winning the Wilderness] Reference
Some looked down abashed and mournful -- some regarded the accused with a cold, unpitying gaze. From Wordnik.com. [Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Complete] Reference
I can see him clinging to his father for protection, and finding that heart hard and unpitying. From Wordnik.com. [Back Home] Reference
I too have felt that old unpitying frenzy, that unreasonable delight in vanquishing her furious strength. From Wordnik.com. [Margarita's Soul The Romantic Recollections of a Man of Fifty] Reference
They could only look up and lift up helpless hands in prayer to the hot, unpitying August skies above them. From Wordnik.com. [Winning the Wilderness] Reference
Under these conditions no further advance was tried from either line, but the firing continued incessant and unpitying. From Wordnik.com. [Story of the War in South Africa 1899-1900] Reference
When close to the whale, in the very death-lock of the fight, he handled his unpitying lance coolly and off-handedly, as. From Wordnik.com. [Moby Dick, or, the whale] Reference
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