unmerciful
Americanadjective
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merciless; relentless; severe; cruel; pitiless.
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unsparingly great, extreme, or excessive, as amounts.
to talk for an unmerciful length of time.
adjective
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showing no mercy; relentless
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extreme or excessive
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Example Sentences
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After a brief huddle with Lliam the Unmerciful, we decided to forget about Happy Hour.
From Time Magazine Archive
I knew I needed help, so I recruited my good friend Lliam the Unmerciful , an old dirt tracker from Boston, to be my mechanic.
From Time Magazine Archive
Still moods and slumberous fanned on To dreams that rock to sleep, Unmerciful abandon, That haunts or makes one weep.
From The Triumph of Music And Other Lyrics by Cawein, Madison Julius
Arulai had been teaching the story of the Unmerciful Servant; and to bring it down to nursery life, supposed the case of a baby who snatched at other babies' toys, and was unfair and selfish.
From Lotus Buds by Carmichael, Amy
Unmerciful, we must be given up to the tormentors until we learn to be merciful.
From Hope of the Gospel by MacDonald, George
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