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at one's mercy

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  • as indowntrodden
  • as inoppressed
  • as insubservient

synonyms for at one's mercy

  • destitute
  • distressed
  • exploited
  • needy
  • oppressed
  • persecuted
  • a slave to
  • abject
  • at one's beck and call
  • at one's feet
  • have-not
  • helpless
  • in one's clutches
  • in one's pocket
  • in one's power
  • led by the nose
  • maltreated
  • mistreated
  • overcome
  • subjugated
  • subservient
  • suppressed
  • tyrannized
  • under one's thumb
  • underdog
  • underfoot
  • abused
  • destitute
  • distressed
  • enslaved
  • exploited
  • helpless
  • persecuted
  • burdened
  • maltreated
  • mistreated
  • suppressed
  • tormented
  • tyrannized
  • abject
  • a slave to
  • at one's feet
  • have-not
  • subservient
  • underfoot
  • under one's thumb

antonyms for at one's mercy

MOST RELEVANT
  • rich
  • wealthy
  • happy
  • respected
  • satisfied
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    How to use at one's mercy in a sentence

    Brethren are a help in the time of trouble, but mercy shall deliver more than they.
    THE BIBLE, DOUAY-RHEIMS VERSIONVARIOUS
    Have mercy on thy people, upon whom thy name is invoked: and upon Israel, whom thou hast raised up to be thy firstborn.
    THE BIBLE, DOUAY-RHEIMS VERSIONVARIOUS
    Tressan was monstrous ill-at-ease, and his face lost a good deal of its habitual plethora of colour.
    ST. MARTIN'S SUMMERRAFAEL SABATINI
    If she have a tongue that can cure, and likewise mitigate and shew mercy: her husband is not like other men.
    THE BIBLE, DOUAY-RHEIMS VERSIONVARIOUS
    Henceforth he must remember Winifred only when his sword was at the throat of some wretched mutineer appealing for mercy.
    THE RED YEARLOUIS TRACY
    And thou hast delivered me, according to the multitude of the mercy of thy name, from them that did roar, prepared to devour.
    THE BIBLE, DOUAY-RHEIMS VERSIONVARIOUS
    I remembered thy mercy, O Lord, and thy works, which are from the beginning of the world.
    THE BIBLE, DOUAY-RHEIMS VERSIONVARIOUS
    A fellow rudely clad—a hybrid between man-at-arms and lackey—lounged on a musket to confront them in the gateway.
    ST. MARTIN'S SUMMERRAFAEL SABATINI
    I could find in the Bible more instances of Jahweh's cruelty and barbarity and lack of mercy than I can find room for.
    GOD AND MY NEIGHBOURROBERT BLATCHFORD
    It wasn't any scruple of mercy, for Hicks was as cold-blooded a brute as ever glanced down a gun-barrel.
    RAW GOLDBERTRAND W. SINCLAIR
    SYNONYM OF THE DAY
    OCTOBER 26, 1985
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