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单词 unmerciful
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Definition of unmerciful in English:

unmerciful

adjective ʌnˈməːsɪf(ə)lʌnˈməːsɪfʊlˌənˈmərsəfəl
  • Cruel or harsh; showing no mercy.

    deceptively inflated incomes expose many couples to unmerciful taxes
    Example sentencesExamples
    • For the captains who helmed America's largest black-owned businesses, managing those businesses in 2002 was like navigating a vessel in an unmerciful storm.
    • Terror, real and imagined, at home and abroad, sit together and spread like an unmerciful cancer through Perowne as the novel reaches its climax.
    • He applied constant, unmerciful pressure even as she bit him savagely on the arm, the sharp pain and bloody marks not even making him flinch.
    • I think my last book, I'm Losing You, struck many people as cold or unmerciful.
    • It is an unmerciful look at the atrocities of the German invasion of Byelorussia through the eyes of a young boy - a boy who ages about 50 years in the course of the film's 2.5 hours.
    • In the wake of their decision to let Rangers off the hook, UEFA took an unmerciful pounding from the Scottish media.
    • Being at the mercy of an unmerciful Ãresource decisionà ®, right at the end of your life, is unacceptable.
    • Hades is not his real name, everybody calls him Hades for his very unmerciful and cruel tactics in battles and wars.
    • Given the unmerciful way that George W Bush responded to the September 11 atrocity, Hussein is surely doing his best to tempt the president over the edge again.
    • The country of Romania has been occupied by Turkey and is forced to pay an annual tribute to the unmerciful Turkish Sultan.
    • Cork gave us an unmerciful hiding in the 2003 final and we'll be hoping to try and make up for that.
    • Legend states that a long time ago, our ancestors struggled for their lives at the unmerciful hands of the daemon horde.
    • A growing number of residents have been contacting the Staines Guardian to complain about the unmerciful action by youngsters, who are harming the birds residing in the River Thames.
    • My mom too, had experienced days of incessant teasing by unmerciful young friends.
    • Killing him would be just as unmerciful as taking the life of someone because they are different.
    • Belinda tickled him, she tickled him unmerciful,
    • Concern for their disbelief, the dishonesty of western leaders and the way in which the mass media has everyone in an unmerciful grip.
    • The End of India has received unmerciful reviews (Karan Thapar injects a nice note of regret as he administers the lethal injection in his review for Outlook), but hey, the reading public loves the grand old man anyway.
    • Many 21st Century Westerners imagine that there are two Gods; the God of the Old Testament - harsh and unmerciful - and the God of the New Testament - loving and forgiving.
    • When he came back to Ireland a few years later he got an unmerciful slagging leaving him extremely sensitive to any mention of Howard Jones or any 80s synth pop for that matter.
    Synonyms
    ruthless, cruel, harsh, merciless, pitiless, unpitying, remorseless, cold-blooded, hard-hearted, hard, callous, brutal, brutish, severe, rigorous, draconian, unrelenting, unforgiving, unsparing, barbarous, savage, inhumane, inhuman, stony, heartless, cut-throat, unsympathetic, unfeeling, illiberal, uncharitable, inflexible, intolerant, rigid, stern, strict, punishing, sadistic

Derivatives

  • unmercifully

  • adverb ʌnˈməːsɪfʊliʌnˈməːsɪf(ə)liˌənˈmərsəfəli
    • Reporters unmercifully peppered Clark with questions, but she refused to concede any ground, parroting the statements of the premier and her party like a robot.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • His false teeth had been taken from him and as he stood in the dock, badgered unmercifully by the venomous chief judge, he kept grasping at his trousers to keep them from falling down.
      • The sad fact is that if the Democrats had tried to make a big issue of the matter the press would have criticized them unmercifully for spoiling the 100th birthday celebrations of a great man with their petty partisan politics.
      • And I was really ticklish when I was a kid (still am for that matter, but only on the back and not all the time), and my cousins used to trap me at Empire Bay and tickle me unmercifully.
      • Unsurprisingly, I was bullied unmercifully at school - particularly because teachers were often late or absent from lessons, allowing the class to run riot.
  • unmercifulness

  • noun
    • We also used silver metal to show the coldness and unmercifulness of war.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • In Greece & Rome the rich & poor, the creditors & debtors, as well as the patricians & plebeians alternately oppressed each other with equal unmercifulness.
      • In the god of the [Old Testament] he saw a being whose character was stern justice, and therefore anger, contentiousness and unmercifulness.
      • Honesty you have; what I think you need is a good dose of unmercifulness.
      • All this we have mentioned can arise from unmercifulness and not out of mercy.
 
 

Definition of unmerciful in US English:

unmerciful

adjectiveˌənˈmərsəfəlˌənˈmərsəfəl
  • Cruel or harsh; showing no mercy.

    deceptively inflated incomes expose many couples to unmerciful taxes
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Many 21st Century Westerners imagine that there are two Gods; the God of the Old Testament - harsh and unmerciful - and the God of the New Testament - loving and forgiving.
    • The country of Romania has been occupied by Turkey and is forced to pay an annual tribute to the unmerciful Turkish Sultan.
    • Killing him would be just as unmerciful as taking the life of someone because they are different.
    • The End of India has received unmerciful reviews (Karan Thapar injects a nice note of regret as he administers the lethal injection in his review for Outlook), but hey, the reading public loves the grand old man anyway.
    • My mom too, had experienced days of incessant teasing by unmerciful young friends.
    • He applied constant, unmerciful pressure even as she bit him savagely on the arm, the sharp pain and bloody marks not even making him flinch.
    • In the wake of their decision to let Rangers off the hook, UEFA took an unmerciful pounding from the Scottish media.
    • Being at the mercy of an unmerciful Ãresource decisionà ®, right at the end of your life, is unacceptable.
    • It is an unmerciful look at the atrocities of the German invasion of Byelorussia through the eyes of a young boy - a boy who ages about 50 years in the course of the film's 2.5 hours.
    • A growing number of residents have been contacting the Staines Guardian to complain about the unmerciful action by youngsters, who are harming the birds residing in the River Thames.
    • Cork gave us an unmerciful hiding in the 2003 final and we'll be hoping to try and make up for that.
    • Legend states that a long time ago, our ancestors struggled for their lives at the unmerciful hands of the daemon horde.
    • Belinda tickled him, she tickled him unmerciful,
    • I think my last book, I'm Losing You, struck many people as cold or unmerciful.
    • For the captains who helmed America's largest black-owned businesses, managing those businesses in 2002 was like navigating a vessel in an unmerciful storm.
    • Hades is not his real name, everybody calls him Hades for his very unmerciful and cruel tactics in battles and wars.
    • Concern for their disbelief, the dishonesty of western leaders and the way in which the mass media has everyone in an unmerciful grip.
    • Given the unmerciful way that George W Bush responded to the September 11 atrocity, Hussein is surely doing his best to tempt the president over the edge again.
    • Terror, real and imagined, at home and abroad, sit together and spread like an unmerciful cancer through Perowne as the novel reaches its climax.
    • When he came back to Ireland a few years later he got an unmerciful slagging leaving him extremely sensitive to any mention of Howard Jones or any 80s synth pop for that matter.
    Synonyms
    ruthless, cruel, harsh, merciless, pitiless, unpitying, remorseless, cold-blooded, hard-hearted, hard, callous, brutal, brutish, severe, rigorous, draconian, unrelenting, unforgiving, unsparing, barbarous, savage, inhumane, inhuman, stony, heartless, cut-throat, unsympathetic, unfeeling, illiberal, uncharitable, inflexible, intolerant, rigid, stern, strict, punishing, sadistic
 
 
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