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merciless [ˈmɜːsɪlɪs] adj
without mercy; pitiless, cruel, or heartless mercilessly adv mercilessness n ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
merciless adjective cruel, ruthless, hard, severe, harsh, relentless, callous, heartless, unforgiving, fell (archaic), inexorable, implacable, unsympathetic, inhumane, barbarous, pitiless, unfeeling, unsparing, hard-hearted, unmerciful, unappeasable, unpitying the merciless efficiency of a modern police state Translations merciless [ˈmɜːsɪlɪs] ADJ [person, attack] → despiadado, cruel; [killing, beating] → cruel; [sun, heat] → implacable he's famous for his merciless treatment of hecklers → tiene fama de tratar despiadadamente a los que interrumpen con preguntas o comentarios molestos merciless [ˈmɜːrsɪləs] adj [person] → impitoyable, sans pitié [efficiency, scrutiny, logic] → implacable, impitoyable the merciless efficiency of a modern police state → l'implacable efficacité d'un État policier moderne, l'impitoyable efficacité d'un État policier moderne merciless adj → unbarmherzig, erbarmungslos; destruction → schonungslos; (= unrelenting) treatment, scrutiny, competition, glare, sun → gnadenlos merciless [ˈmɜːsɪlɪs] adj → spietato/a merciless [ˈmɜːsɪlɪs] adj → spietato/a How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Such perfidious Treachery in the merciless perpetrators of the Deed will shock your gentle nature Dearest Marianne as much as it then affected the Delicate sensibility of Edward, Sophia, your Laura, and of Augustus himself. But Barbicane, who was a better judge, always answered him with merciless logic. Now, it being Christmas when the ship shot from out her harbor, for a space we had biting Polar weather, though all the time running away from it to the southward; and by every degree and minute of latitude which we sailed, gradually leaving that merciless winter, and all its intolerable weather behind us. |
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