unmerciful
adjective
merciless; relentless; severe; cruel; pitiless.
unmercifulness
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a word derived from
unmerciful.
Example Sentences
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"Thou seest what unmercifulness thou dost compel us to adopt, amantissime!" said the brother apologetically, but still holding him aloft with one hand and shaking a reproving finger at him with the other.
From The Slaves of the Padishah by M?r J?kai
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
God's mercy to man, and man's unmercifulness to his fellow, are the two principal things set forth in the parable.
From Old Wine and New Occasional Discourses by Joseph Cross
What awful woe of sudden unprotectedness when life exists only through protection—what piteous panic in the midst of black unmercifulness, inarticulate sound howsoever wildly shrill can neither explain nor express.
From The Head of the House of Coombe by Frances Hodgson Burnett
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
