Thesaurus / merciless
EXAMPLE SENTENCES FROM THE WEB
Long before reason found the answer, instinct—swift, merciless interpreter—told him plainly.
THE WAVEALGERNON BLACKWOOD
It was merciless and terrible—so slightly, faintly indicated, yet so overwhelmingly convincing.
THE WAVEALGERNON BLACKWOOD
"And if it is not brought home to you—the fact remains the same," said Mr. Carr, in his merciless truth.
ELSTER'S FOLLYMRS. HENRY WOOD
The merciless commissioners had ordered her to be incarcerated in a cell which no beam of light could penetrate.
MADAME ROLAND, MAKERS OF HISTORYJOHN S. C. ABBOTT
Her husband is a fugitive, pursued by human blood-hounds more merciless than the brute.
MADAME ROLAND, MAKERS OF HISTORYJOHN S. C. ABBOTT
When she gets wicked or mad enough to hate, either through jealousy or because she cannot love where she would, she is merciless.
MRS. FALCHION, COMPLETEGILBERT PARKER
But the merciless excisions of inoffensive passages by the Austrian censorship destroyed the journal in a year.
MY TEN YEARS' IMPRISONMENTSILVIO PELLICO
The object of this merciless retort stood for a second, in doubt as to its meaning, and then walked off, still in incertitude.
ALONEMARION HARLAND
The world is merciless, perhaps, but it is not so utterly and hopelessly merciless to any man or woman as one's heart may be.
THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A PLAYBRONSON HOWARD
He stood alone, confronted by a merciless rival, in the lonely forest of the Saskatchewan.
MENOTAHERNEST G. HENHAM
WORDS RELATED TO MERCILESS
- barbaric
- barbarous
- bestial
- brutal
- cannibalistic
- cold-blooded
- cruel
- devilish
- diabolical
- fell
- ferocious
- fiendish
- fierce
- grim
- hateful
- heartless
- implacable
- inhumane
- malicious
- malign
- malignant
- mean
- merciless
- pitiless
- relentless
- remorseless
- ruthless
- savage
- truculent
- uncompassionate
- unfeeling
- unkind
- unrelenting
- unsympathetic
- vicious
- wolfish
- barbaric
- barbarous
- bestial
- brutal
- cannibalistic
- cold-blooded
- cruel
- devilish
- diabolical
- fell
- ferocious
- fiendish
- fierce
- grim
- hateful
- heartless
- implacable
- malicious
- malign
- malignant
- mean
- merciless
- pitiless
- relentless
- remorseless
- ruthless
- truculent
- uncompassionate
- unfeeling
- unkind
- unrelenting
- unsympathetic
- vicious
- arduous
- austere
- backbreaking
- burdensome
- crushing
- cumbersome
- demanding
- difficult
- distressing
- exacting
- excessive
- exhausting
- exigent
- fatiguing
- formidable
- galling
- grave
- grinding
- grueling
- hard
- harsh
- headache
- heavy
- intolerable
- irksome
- laborious
- merciless
- oppressive
- overpowering
- overtaxing
- painful
- plodding
- ponderous
- pressing
- responsible
- rigorous
- serious
- severe
- strenuous
- taxing
- tiresome
- tiring
- toilsome
- troublesome
- vexatious
- weighty
- avaricious
- barbarous
- bloody
- callous
- cruel
- fierce
- forbidding
- greedy
- grim
- hard
- hard-bitten
- hard-hearted
- hardened
- harsh
- impenitent
- implacable
- inexorable
- inhuman
- inhumane
- insensitive
- intolerant
- merciless
- murderous
- obdurate
- pitiless
- relentless
- rigorous
- ruthless
- sanguinary
- savage
- shameless
- sour
- tough
- tyrannical
- uncompassionate
- uncontrite
- unforgiving
- unmerciful
- unregenerate
- unrelenting
- unremitting
- unrepenting
- unyielding
- vindictive
- adamant
- barbarous
- brutal
- callous
- cold
- cold-blooded
- cruel
- cutthroat
- dog-eat-dog
- feral
- ferocious
- fierce
- grim
- hard
- hard-hearted
- harsh
- implacable
- inexorable
- inhuman
- ironfisted
- killer
- malevolent
- merciless
- mortal
- obdurate
- pitiless
- rancorous
- relentless
- remorseless
- revengeful
- sadistic
- savage
- severe
- stern
- stony
- surly
- unappeasable
- unfeeling
- unforgiving
- unmerciful
- unrelenting
- unsympathetic
- unyielding
- vicious
- vindictive
- without pity
- atrocious
- barbarous
- beastly
- bestial
- bloodthirsty
- bloody
- brutal
- brutish
- cold-blooded
- crazed
- demoniac
- destructive
- devilish
- diabolical
- fell
- feral
- ferine
- ferocious
- fierce
- frantic
- furious
- grim
- harsh
- heartless
- hellish
- infernal
- inhuman
- inhumane
- malevolent
- malicious
- merciless
- murderous
- pitiless
- rabid
- raging
- rapacious
- ravening
- relentless
- remorseless
- ruthless
- sadistic
- truculent
- unrelenting
- violent
- wolfish
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