Merciless is an English word with synonyms like unmerciful or implacable. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Merciless meaning
Showing no mercy; cruel and pitiless.
Synonyms of Merciless
Using Merciless
- The main meaning on this page is: Showing no mercy; cruel and pitiless.
- Useful related words include: unmerciful, implacable, inclement, hard.
- In the example corpus, merciless often appears in combinations such as: the merciless, and merciless, of merciless.
Context around Merciless
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 12 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Merciless
- In this selection, "merciless" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 26.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, seek, sometimes, israeli, serial and frog stand out and add context to how "merciless" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a sometimes merciless approach to and and other merciless ways of. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "merciless" sits close to words such as aam, baptists and basements, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with merciless
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The kill was merciless, a bullet to the head indicating no remorse. (12 words)
The merciless ringing of the metal bells would warn the pedestrians of incoming cyclists. (14 words)
Crushed but still alive, Sam is left with only one purpose: to seek merciless and bone-breaking vengeance. (18 words)
The movie will follow a chapter of the eventual President's youth, trying to understand why he became the merciless person audiences get to know by the time Lawrence's protagonist tries to get rid of the government. (38 words)
Whereas he rightfully condemned the unimaginable evil act of Hamas that over 1,400 innocent Israelis, he is waging a merciless campaign against innocent Palestinians who had nothing to do with Hamas’ acts of terror. (35 words)
Anime lovers who prefer their stories dark and violent can choose from a nice variety of anime with epic fight scenes, petrifying monsters, and merciless serial killers who murdered their victims in brutal ways. (34 words)
Example sentences (20)
Anime lovers who prefer their stories dark and violent can choose from a nice variety of anime with epic fight scenes, petrifying monsters, and merciless serial killers who murdered their victims in brutal ways.
As Redgi, heir to the Rat Throne, you must restore your broken Kingdom by banishing the merciless Frog Clan and their ferocious leader, Greenwart.
Bringing the raging fury of nature's wrath is the Merciless Ruby Ruiner Gruul, a Red/Green deck in this that takes advantage of Double Strike, Haste, and Trample effects.
Casualties of the merciless NHL salary cap, Hall and Nick Foligno were sent to the Hawks last week in exchange for defensemen Ian Mitchell and Alec Regula.
Crushed but still alive, Sam is left with only one purpose: to seek merciless and bone-breaking vengeance.
During a drive through Philadelphia, the Lanes witness the spread of a disease, which transforms people into merciless predators with a single bite.
Fast-forward to May 2023, after months of merciless fighting, Prigozhin claimed to have captured Bakhmut and began withdrawing his troops from the city.
He drove at the 34-year-old officer at around 50mph in the three-ton Mitsubishi L200 truck in what the prosecution alleged was a "cowardly and merciless act".
Here, ordinary humans without magic are not only shunned by sorcerers, but also used in experiments by them and even killed, despite living separately, in a depressing and merciless place known as the "Hole".
Screaming and other merciless ways of regulating impertinence are sometimes handy tools of many teachers, which perhaps is effective on some but has a blunting effect on many and is in no way justifiable.
The kill was merciless, a bullet to the head indicating no remorse.
The merciless ringing of the metal bells would warn the pedestrians of incoming cyclists.
The movie will follow a chapter of the eventual President's youth, trying to understand why he became the merciless person audiences get to know by the time Lawrence's protagonist tries to get rid of the government.
Then it was the uncritical support given to Stalin’s merciless dictatorship in the Soviet Union, while today it is largely hero worship of the EU.
Watch: Thousands rally in Doha, Qatar, in protest of the merciless Israeli aggression on Gaza, which has claimed 1,600 lives so far since last Saturday.
Whereas he rightfully condemned the unimaginable evil act of Hamas that over 1,400 innocent Israelis, he is waging a merciless campaign against innocent Palestinians who had nothing to do with Hamas’ acts of terror.
As the series goes on, expresses empathy for these marginalized people, shining a light on the everyday indignities and merciless injustices they face because of institutionalized bigotry.
By combining business savvy, the outlook of a visionary, good luck, and a sometimes merciless approach to competition, a select few Americans have been able to amass fortunes worth billions.
Disease, hunger, insecurity, constant evacuation orders, uncertainty, and fatigue are ravaging Palestinians in Gaza, who are stuck between a merciless Israeli war machine and a ruthless militant organization.
Even for a merciless series, it's discomfiting for Leoben to wage gender-based psychological warfare on the series' main female character.
Common combinations with merciless
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the merciless 16×
- and merciless 14×
- of merciless 5×
- merciless and 4×
- in merciless 4×
- be merciless 4×
- was merciless 3×
- merciless campaign 3×
- merciless in 3×
- merciless israeli 2×