mercilessness

Example Sentences

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This mercilessness will only grow when the playoff expands, and it will expand, because: money.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 27, 2025

As a criminal defense lawyer for 15 years — many of them as a public defender — she’s well acquainted with the mercilessness of America’s criminal justice system.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 4, 2022

Jackson’s Lear movingly bears witness to the mercilessness of old age.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 4, 2019

It was not the first time the Warriors, featuring the NBA’s premier defense and best record, had suffocated an offense with such mercilessness.

From Washington Post • Mar. 24, 2015

Greed, delusional visions of grandeur, the mercenary mercilessness that made every relationship expendable—Midland perfected all these long before they became the standard of the eighties around the rest of the country.

From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger