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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Having no mercy; cruel.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Destitute of mercy; unfeeling; pitiless; hard-hearted; cruel; relentless; unsparing: as, a merciless tyrant.
  2. Without hope of mercy.
  3. Synonyms Unmerciful, severe, inexorable, unrelenting, barbarous, savage.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. showing no mercy; cruel and pitiless

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Destitute of mercy; cruel; unsparing; -- said of animate beings, and also, figuratively, of things

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. having or showing no mercy

Etymologies

  1. mercy +‎ -less (Wiktionary)

Examples

  • “But they returned in the late morning, shaken by what they described as a merciless surprise attack by government forces with rocket- propelled grenades and heavy artillery.”

    The Washington Post: Gaddafi intensifies campaign

  • “But they returned in the late morning, shaken by what they described as a merciless surprise attack by government forces with rocket-propelled grenades and heavy artillery.”

    The Washington Post: Gaddafi intensifies campaign

  • “Opening the prosecution case today, Gerard Elias QC said the two double killings ammounted to what he called merciless executions for pitifully small gain.”

    WalesOnline - Home

  • “They are described as merciless with people who tell them less than the truth.”

    Simon & Schuster: The Bass Handbook of Leadership

  • “It's addressed to his supporters both inside and outside Iraq and it takes a swipe at Americans, which Saddam refers to as merciless tyrants.”

    CNN Transcript Dec 28, 2006

  • “And it takes a swipe at Americans, which Saddam refers to as merciless tyrants.”

    CNN Transcript Dec 27, 2006

  • “He is filled with what might be called a merciless pity, a sympathy almost malicious.”

    Tolstoy and "The Kreutzer Sonata"

  • “She reflected; and with her acute memory for the letter of Angel Clare's remarks, even when she did not comprehend their spirit, she recalled a merciless polemical syllogism that she had heard him use when, as it occasionally happened, he indulged in a species of thinking aloud with her at his side.”

    Tess of the d'Urbervilles

  • “Clare's remarks, even when she did not comprehend their spirit, she recalled a merciless polemical syllogism that she had heard him use when, as it occasionally happened, he indulged in a species of thinking aloud with her at his side.”

    Tess of the d'Urbervilles

  • “(The folding was incessant; it recalled the merciless "Saturday Night Live" Gap Girls skits.)”

    post-gazette.com - News

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