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piedad

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nounfeminine
  1. piety
  2. pity, mercy
  3. compassion

Forms

noun

singularpiedad
pluralpiedades

Used in the library

  • Con el pastel no hay piedad para nadie.With cake there is no mercy for anybody.B1Otra vez, por favor (3) — Once more, please (3) (B1)
  • Con la última vacuna no hay piedad: entran todos.With the last vaccination there is no mercy: everybody goes in.B1Otra vez, por favor (18) — Once more, please (18) (B1)
  • Con la última caja no hay piedad: la lleva el más joven.With the last box there is no mercy: the youngest carries it.B1Otra vez, por favor (10) — Once more, please (10) (B1)
  • Empieza con un diagnóstico sin piedad: tres siglos de dominio español habían dejado a los americanos, escribe, "en un estado de infancia permanente", sin experiencia de gobernarse.It begins with a pitiless diagnosis: three centuries of Spanish rule had left the Americans, he writes, "in a state of permanent infancy", with no experience of governing themselves.C1La Carta de Jamaica — The Jamaica Letter

Other ways to say it

  • compasióncompassion; sympathy
  • graciagrace, charm; mercy
  • mercedmercy
  • misericordiamisericord; mercy

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