unremorseful
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7.5
- adjective
- /ˌʌn.rɪˈmɔːrs.fəl/
:
sin remordimientos
- The defendant remained unremorseful, refusing to apologize for his actions even in court.
Examples
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These Biercean characters are willful perpetrators—calculating and unremorseful.
Fiction book (1998) -
An unemotional, unremorseful confession.
Fiction book (1990) -
By disappearing her sites, while it may not have been her intention to do so, it made her seem unapologetic and unremorseful of her actions.
Blog text (12) -
I don't know about you, but I wouldn't like to belong to a murderer and unremorseful nation.
Blog text (24) -
In between the well-deserved rants about the unremorseful Thompson and the sadness about Zehm's needless death should come the realization that we failed.
Blog text (3) -
It may be a cynical sentiment, but it is also one that strikes me as far less cynical than the apparently widely held conviction that one or both candidates is an unremorseful liar, foisting their contempt for raw data on an unsuspecting public.
Blog text (32) -
Despite the damage caused, she was unremorseful about her decision to ignore the warning signs.
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His unremorseful attitude after the incident shocked everyone who had expected him to feel guilty.
Synonyms
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7.5
Not feeling sorry for something and not wanting to change
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6.4
Not sorry for something you did or said
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7.5
Not feeling sorry and continuing without stopping when hurting others
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8.2
Not feeling or showing regret after doing something wrong
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9.1
Not feeling sorry or ashamed for doing something wrong
Does not feel sorry about what you did
Not feeling sorry about something you did
Not feeling or showing regret for something you did
Antonyms
How Remorseful
Surface Forms
Morphology
unremorseful = remorseful (transparent) = un + remorse + ful
The meaning is directly compositional: 'un-' negates 'remorseful' to mean 'not remorseful'.
Etymology
Unremorseful is made of the part un- meaning 'not' and remorse, a word from an old Latin root meaning 'to bite', because people once pictured guilt as something that 'bites' at you. So, unremorseful means not feeling or showing that 'biting' feeling of guilt.