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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You remembered the halcyon days of the first coming of Brendan Rodgers and the unmerciful hidings his team doled out to their chums from across the city.
From BBC ● Dec. 30, 2023
In March, Manchin told the Bluefield Daily Telegraph that the 4th Circuit "has been unmerciful on allowing any progress" by Mountain Valley Pipeline.
From Salon ● Aug. 5, 2022
Doing stand-up, Leggero is observational and unmerciful, lampooning everyone from Rite-Aid cashiers to typewriter-toting hipsters, a dumpster-diving Burning Man attendee named “Flapjack,” and, naturally, Kasher.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 28, 2022
It took the huge and sudden migration of the Gold Rush for the tribe to be confronted by unmerciful invaders.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 27, 2021
Big Ma said we would cause her slow and unmerciful death, but we knew she didn’t mean it.
From "Gone Crazy in Alabama" by Rita Williams-Garcia
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