Merciless

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  • adjective. Having no mercy; cruel.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Destitute of mercy; unfeeling; pitiless; hard-hearted; cruel; relentless; unsparing: as, a merciless tyrant.
  • Without hope of mercy.
  • Synonyms Unmerciful, severe, inexorable, unrelenting, barbarous, savage.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Destitute of mercy; cruel; unsparing; -- said of animate beings, and also, figuratively, of things
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. showing no mercy; cruel and pitiless
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. having or showing no mercy
  • Word Usage
    "But they returned in the late morning, shaken by what they described as a merciless surprise attack by government forces with rocket- propelled grenades and heavy artillery."
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