[ UK /mˈɜːsɪləs/ ]
[ US /ˈmɝsəɫəs/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. having or showing no mercy
    the merciless enemy
    a merciless critic
    gave him a merciless beating
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How To Use merciless In A Sentence

  • He would tell me who I was, and his judgment was lacerating, merciless.
  • The magazine is famed for its merciless political lampoons.
  • Football can be a cruel business and the Premiership is one of the most merciless and unforgiving of all leagues.
  • And the effort expended under the Mara's merciless sun pays fabulous dividends. Times, Sunday Times
  • Nowadays, partisans on one side of the aisle mercilessly assail their opponents as nefarious ideologues bent on the destruction of the nation, while claiming the sacred mantle of the Founding Fathers as exclusively their own. Morgan Pehme: Strip Politics: A Cure for Incivility
  • His head wasn't pounding anymore but it throbbed mercilessly making the room spin.
  • Almost as bad as with the local humans," said Steadiness, the zoologist who taught and teased us mercilessly. THE BIRTHDAY OF THE WORLD
  • They sabered the officer who raised a white surrender flag, and bayoneted the wounded in a merciless slaughter.
  • Choose your weapons carefully, be merciless, be thorough, and take no prisoners!
  • He slipped on a pair of weighted training mitts and started to belt and pummel the bag mercilessly.
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