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词汇 merciless
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Definition of merciless in English:

merciless

adjective ˈməːsɪlɪsˈmərsələs
  • Showing no mercy.

    冷酷无情的;残忍的;毫无仁慈之心的

    a merciless attack with a blunt instrument

    残忍的钝器攻击。

    figurative the merciless summer heat

    〈喻〉夏季酷热。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • They will intone that killing civilians is cowardly and warrants swift and merciless punishment.
    • This is a terrorist attack, a merciless evil that should exist in no world.
    • The resulting progeny is a group of merciless blonde-haired kids who do mom's bidding, no matter how messy.
    • Below us is the Indian Ocean, looking seductive and innocent where once it was cruel and merciless.
    • Football can be a cruel business and the Premiership is one of the most merciless and unforgiving of all leagues.
    • History has repeatedly told the merciless lesson that underrating the potential of weird ideas is dearly bought.
    • In the year of this merciless trickster, it's best to be flexible.
    • Success here is only the first step towards a very high target, which imposes merciless requirements.
    • His is the humour of merciless exposure to our own absurdities.
    • The winters were brutal and the black flies were merciless in the summer.
    • The film opens in 1950 as Franta languishes in a merciless labour camp.
    • Why be so merciless to her and treat someone who proposes evil with kid gloves?
    • The judge described the attack as savage and merciless.
    • All parties agreed that he was a brutal, merciless tyrant whose removal was desirable.
    • He didn't want Hakida to think him a heartless, merciless killer, as that wasn't it.
    • He was cruel and merciless, and has been said to treat his dogs in a higher respect than his women.
    • A steel spike, cruel and merciless, no mere toy to project an image of courage and fearlessness.
    • No one can deny that Jews have suffered merciless oppression during their history.
    • On Friday morning it was being blasted by a merciless wind from across the vast, dry plains to the southwest, presaging a storm.
    • It is because they are a tough, determined unit able to pounce on any opportunity and are also merciless towards their own players.
    Synonyms
    ruthless, remorseless, pitiless, unmerciful, unforgiving, uncharitable, unsparing, unpitying, implacable, inexorable, relentless, inflexible, barbarous, inhumane, inhuman, cold-blooded, hard-hearted, stony-hearted, heartless, harsh, callous, cruel, brutal, cut-throat, unsympathetic, unfeeling, illiberal, intolerant, rigid, severe, stern

Derivatives

  • mercilessness

  • noun ˈməːsɪləsnəsˈmərsələsnəs
    • The mercilessness shown by Stack Lee helped make this the stuff of folklore.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • As the caption put it, Behe was cross-examined ‘with cheerful mercilessness.’
      • And there are few things more vicious than the mercilessness fallen man shows a penitent.
      • But this anxious feeling of antagonism and mercilessness is rarely talked about - if at all.
      • The most powerful image of this infinite mercilessness is also the first.
      • In many of his over 150 tales, Andersen flirts with mercilessness and amoralism.
      • Her vulnerable expression and her eyelids closed, she wondered how this woman could mutter such affronts to the inferior and poor slave that endured her mercilessness.
      • Moravia's mercilessness challenges the current Anglo-American rage for a more empathic, emotional brand of narrative.
      • Natalia was struggling to contain herself, a torrent of emotions wanting to burst forth and unleash themselves with unrelenting mercilessness.
      • He sent dozens before firing squads, shocking friends with his mercilessness.
      • You can't like his poems - they're deliberately virulent; you can only gasp at their skill and daring, their sickening warp, their mercilessness.
      • Despite Mussolini's colonial policies of racial superiority and mercilessness, the fascist regime claimed to be different from the other colonial powers.
      • The selfishness and mercilessness of these corporate pigs knows no bounds.
      • In the second half of the book, Athill describes, with a strange combination of amiability and mercilessness, the main writers with whom she worked.
      • 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.
      • Filmed in Alberta and Colorado, every exterior shot portrays the mercilessness of winter in the high mountains.
      • For the man inside the hut, his accuser and punisher was being mercilessness.
      • The showdown was fierce as both of them employed the basic rules of the trade: ruthlessness, mercilessness, and pitilessness.
      • It is a theme that replicated itself across the mountains with the mercilessness of the parasitic beast in Ridley Scott's Alien, consuming its host forest and moving on to fresh ground.

Definition of merciless in US English:

merciless

adjectiveˈmərsələsˈmərsələs
  • Showing no mercy or pity.

    冷酷无情的;残忍的;毫无仁慈之心的

    a merciless attack with a blunt instrument

    残忍的钝器攻击。

    figurative the merciless summer heat

    〈喻〉夏季酷热。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • This is a terrorist attack, a merciless evil that should exist in no world.
    • The film opens in 1950 as Franta languishes in a merciless labour camp.
    • The winters were brutal and the black flies were merciless in the summer.
    • His is the humour of merciless exposure to our own absurdities.
    • History has repeatedly told the merciless lesson that underrating the potential of weird ideas is dearly bought.
    • He didn't want Hakida to think him a heartless, merciless killer, as that wasn't it.
    • Football can be a cruel business and the Premiership is one of the most merciless and unforgiving of all leagues.
    • Below us is the Indian Ocean, looking seductive and innocent where once it was cruel and merciless.
    • No one can deny that Jews have suffered merciless oppression during their history.
    • On Friday morning it was being blasted by a merciless wind from across the vast, dry plains to the southwest, presaging a storm.
    • It is because they are a tough, determined unit able to pounce on any opportunity and are also merciless towards their own players.
    • In the year of this merciless trickster, it's best to be flexible.
    • The resulting progeny is a group of merciless blonde-haired kids who do mom's bidding, no matter how messy.
    • A steel spike, cruel and merciless, no mere toy to project an image of courage and fearlessness.
    • They will intone that killing civilians is cowardly and warrants swift and merciless punishment.
    • Why be so merciless to her and treat someone who proposes evil with kid gloves?
    • Success here is only the first step towards a very high target, which imposes merciless requirements.
    • He was cruel and merciless, and has been said to treat his dogs in a higher respect than his women.
    • The judge described the attack as savage and merciless.
    • All parties agreed that he was a brutal, merciless tyrant whose removal was desirable.
    Synonyms
    ruthless, remorseless, pitiless, unmerciful, unforgiving, uncharitable, unsparing, unpitying, implacable, inexorable, relentless, inflexible, barbarous, inhumane, inhuman, cold-blooded, hard-hearted, stony-hearted, heartless, harsh, callous, cruel, brutal, cut-throat, unsympathetic, unfeeling, illiberal, intolerant, rigid, severe, stern
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