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UK
/mˈɜːsɪləsli/
]
[ US /ˈmɝsəɫəsɫi/ ]
[ US /ˈmɝsəɫəsɫi/ ]
ADVERB
-
without pity; in a merciless manner
he was mercilessly trounced by his opponent in the House
How To Use mercilessly In A Sentence
- 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
- He slipped on a pair of weighted training mitts and started to belt and pummel the bag mercilessly.
- The novel's title is apt - so to speak - since "Salute the Dark" is brutal with the characters who are treated mercilessly as befits persons caught in total war, while the atmosphere is tensioned and menacing almost end to end, keeping me to the edge until the final denouements. "Salute the Dark" by Adrian Tchaikovsky with bonus first peek at its US cover by artist Jon Sullivan (Reviewed by Liviu Suciu)
- The entire enterprise was mercilessly and hilariously satirized in her novel.
- The scoundrels who made their living plundering, murdering those who got in their way, mercilessly defiling women… it was too much for her to bear.
- A civil war in Sri Lanka, extending nowhere else, untainted on either side by even a whiff of Islamism -- a war in which a minority people, slaughtered mercilessly for decades, have come to identify (at least to some extent) with a brutal counterforce called the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, is now effortlessly connected to 9/11. Archive 2009-04-01
- They are the victims of appalling brutality, singled out by the Nazis as subhuman and beaten mercilessly.
- So it was that the scholar began his researches at the abbey, continuously aware of the three novices who toiled at the drive-mill and the fourth novice who invited glare-blindness atop the ladder to keep the lamp burning and adjusted-a situation which caused the Poet to versify mercilessly concerning the demon Embarrassment and the outrages he perpetrated in the name of penitence or appeasement. A Canticle for Leibowitz