NOUN
- feelings of extreme heartlessness
- inhumaneness evidenced by an unwillingness to be kind or forgiving
How To Use mercilessness In A Sentence
- Filmed in Alberta and Colorado, every exterior shot portrays the mercilessness of winter in the high mountains.
- Filmed in Alberta and Colorado, every exterior shot portrays the mercilessness of winter in the high mountains.
- Phyllis' opisthotonic reaction to being stabbed is almost as animalistic as the opportunistic mercilessness of her tormentors. 31 Screams: Lucy Grantham
- No humans perished in the blaze as the authorities stood idly by, but the firemen's mercilessness took on an added dimension when it was learned that the family's three dogs and cat died in the inferno. Edward Flattau: Compassion
- At first he responds with fear and pity, later with loathing and mercilessness.
- Faces of children, faces of teachers: angry, taunting, horrible… my heart was overwhelmed at the mercilessness others imposed.
- Moravia's mercilessness challenges the current Anglo-American rage for a more empathic, emotional brand of narrative.
- You can't like his poems - they're deliberately virulent; you can only gasp at their skill and daring, their sickening warp, their mercilessness.
- His ethics had been compressed into a fierce loyalty to friends and a mercilessness towards those who betrayed him. The Return
- Reply Obj. 3: Cruelty is there taken for mercilessness, which is lack of beneficence. Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province