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UK
/ˌʌnɹɪlˈɛntɪŋ/
]
[ US /ˌənɹiˈɫɛntɪŋ/ ]
[ US /ˌənɹiˈɫɛntɪŋ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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punishingly harsh
a brutal winter
the brutal summer sun -
never-ceasing
the relentless beat of the drums -
not to be placated or appeased or moved by entreaty
grim necessity
grim determination
relentless persecution
Russia's final hour, it seemed, approached with inexorable certainty
the stern demands of parenthood
How To Use unrelenting In A Sentence
- British summers mean we get rain, wind, sun, snow and frost all in the same week but our winters are just so glum, no blizzards just unrelenting dankness.
- Jersey political shtick stand-up at the Democratic National Convention; the arena that bore his name has gone through several different corporate sponsors since, and is currently a severely brand-infected assaultively unrelenting advertising-delivery module - in which basketball is still played, sometimes - sponsored by Izod. Can't Stop The Bleeding
- Our intellectual culture demands that every idea or phenomenon be subjected to the unrelenting rigour of rationalism, or excesses of scientism.
- Pigs are innocent victims of a cruel, unrelenting slaughterhouse industry.
- In the packed public gallery, Mrs Humes's family, who had glared with unrelenting hatred at him during the hearing, were in tears.
- Eventually the brief day begins to feel unreal, an illusory comfort for those who cannot take the unrelenting darkness.
- Despite sometimes being quite sensible (as Mr. Kenney is trying to be on citizenship, refugees and immigration), it's members of the Frat Pack who are immediately off the mark with the kind of perfervid rhetoric that goes with the Conservative communications strategy: unrelenting partisanship and obsessive control of information. The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
- So it's kind of cool for me to think of myself as someone who's unrelenting and controlling of situations.
- The responsibility for unrelenting global crisis and hardship lies more appropriately with a rudderless global financial system drifting hopelessly without a solid anchor.
- He had been unrelenting with his plan and given no heed to the young lieutenant he had talked to.