unmerciful
adjective
merciless; relentless; severe; cruel; pitiless.
unmercifulness
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a word derived from
unmerciful.
Example Sentences
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There is an element of unmercifulness in the candour of La Rochefoucauld which is distressing to sentimentalists.
From Three French Moralists and The Gallantry of France by Edmund Gosse
When charity goes away, these wild and savage beasts of darkness come forth, viz. bitter envying and strife, rigid censuring and judging, unmercifulness and implacableness of spirit upon others' failings and offences.
From The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Hugh Binning
There appears to be traceable also a feeling of a special, though less painful, kind against unmercifulness.
From Oxford Lectures on Poetry by Andrew Cecil Bradley
To say nothing about the impropriety and unmercifulness of such conduct to any prisoner, how does it appear in a man of sufficient years to know better, towards a small boy.
From Recollections of Windsor Prison; Containing Sketches of its History and Discipline with Appropriate Strictures and Moral and Religious Reflection by John N. Reynolds
And then he laid bare sin after sin—avarice, evil-speaking, wrongs wrought, wrongs unforgiven, injustice, envy, unmercifulness, pride, selfishness in all its disguises—until heart after heart felt itself seen through and laid bare.
From The Ravens and the Angels With Other Stories and Parables by Elizabeth Rundle Charles
