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mercilessness

  • a word derived from merciless.
    merciless
    adjective
    without mercy; having or showing no mercy; pitiless; cruel.

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This mercilessness will only grow when the playoff expands, and it will expand, because: money.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 27, 2025

As a criminal defense lawyer for 15 years — many of them as a public defender — she’s well acquainted with the mercilessness of America’s criminal justice system.

From Seattle Times Sep. 4, 2022

He stood at 4 over par amid the mercilessness of Winged Foot.

From Washington Post Sep. 17, 2020

Jackson’s Lear movingly bears witness to the mercilessness of old age.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 4, 2019

Greed, delusional visions of grandeur, the mercenary mercilessness that made every relationship expendable—Midland perfected all these long before they became the standard of the eighties around the rest of the country.

From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger