Unmerciful
[ʌn'mɜːsɪfʊl;-f(ə)l]
Definition
(a.) Not merciful; indisposed to mercy or grace; cruel; inhuman; merciless; unkind.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Merciless, cruel, inexorable, inhuman.[2]. [Colloquial.] Exorbitant, extravagant, unconscionable.
Typist: Molly
Definition
adj. showing no mercy: exorbitant.—adv. Unmer′cifully.—n. Unmer′cifulness.
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Examples
- He is despotic, and unmerciful to insubordination; he would shoot a fellow down with as little remorse as he would shoot a buck, if he opposed him. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- You are unmerciful to young gentlemen, Miss Garth, said the Vicar, within two yards of her. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
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