unmerciful
[uhn-mur-si-fuh l]
- merciless; relentless; severe; cruel; pitiless.
- unsparingly great, extreme, or excessive, as amounts: to talk for an unmerciful length of time.
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Origin of unmerciful
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Examples from the Web for unmercifully
Historical Examples
It was received with great applause, and I was unmercifully chaffed.
Brighter Britain! (Volume 1 of 2)William Delisle Hay
They were swarming all over us, and how unmercifully they did guy us!
War from the InsideFrederick L. (Frederick Lyman) Hitchcock
His whole weight hangs in them—they'll cut him unmercifully.
DisownedVictor Endersby
It was no easy task, the full pails tugging most unmercifully at his arms.
Paul Prescott's ChargeHoratio Alger
You are just the kind of a man that women fool most unmercifully.
The Love Affairs of an Old MaidLilian Bell
unmerciful
- showing no mercy; relentless
- extreme or excessive
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