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His master may be a man of some conscientious scruples; ours may be unmerciful.
Chaucer refers us to Aleyn's description on account of its unmerciful length; it was hopeless to attempt even an epitome of it.
One characteristic mark of a heathen is, that he is "without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful."
FOX'S BOOK OF MARTYRSJOHN FOXE
No sooner had the hated word been uttered, than his companions assailed him in a most unmerciful manner.
THE MYSTERIES OF ALL NATIONSJAMES GRANT
His denial was unavailing, and by the enraged teacher he was beaten in a most unjust and unmerciful manner.
Opulence generally makes men tyrannical, and great success in business makes them unmerciful.
HISTORY OF THE NEGRO RACE IN AMERICA FROM 1619 TO 1880. VOL 1GEORGE W. WILLIAMS
On the margin of the second design the artist (in a humorous mood) has limned an unmerciful caricature of the whole incident.
DICKENS AND HIS ILLUSTRATORSFREDERIC G. KITTON
The people fled into the forests on the hills, and were an easy prey to the marauders, who seem to have been unmerciful.
"Now, don't ask me—I can't—it wouldn't be wise if I could," cried Tom, giving his hair an unmerciful combing with his fingers.
A NOBLE WOMANANN S. STEPHENS
Tom's face lengthened for an instant, he gave his hair another unmerciful combing with his fingers.
A NOBLE WOMANANN S. STEPHENS
WORDS RELATED TO UNMERCIFUL
- barbarous
- bloodthirsty
- brutal
- brutish
- cruel
- fell
- feral
- fierce
- frightful
- grim
- implacable
- inhuman
- inhumane
- lupine
- merciless
- murderous
- pitiless
- predatory
- rapacious
- ravening
- ravenous
- relentless
- ruthless
- sanguinary
- savage
- tigerish
- truculent
- unmerciful
- unrestrained
- untamed
- vehement
- vicious
- voracious
- wild
- wolfish
- barbarous
- callous
- compassionless
- cruel
- cutthroat
- dog-eat-dog
- fierce
- gratuitous
- grim
- hard
- hardhearted
- harsh
- hatchet job
- having a killer instinct
- implacable
- inexorable
- inhumane
- iron-fisted
- mean machine
- mortal
- pitiless
- relentless
- ruthless
- severe
- unappeasable
- uncalled-for
- unfeeling
- unflinching
- unforgiving
- unmerciful
- unpitying
- unrelenting
- unsparing
- unsympathetic
- unyielding
- wanton
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.