Adjective : a merciless critic. From Dictionary.com.
Reply Obj. 3: Cruelty is there taken for mercilessness, which is lack of beneficence. From Wordnik.com. [Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province] Reference
You should realize the mercilessness and cruelty of my actions. From Wordnik.com. [Noble House]
It sounded compatible with the mercilessness she had herself experienced. From Wordnik.com. [The Sheik] Reference
Mr. Palacios has no illusions about the mercilessness of the Castro regime. From Wordnik.com. [A Dissident's Return to Cuba] Reference
His jaw literally drops at the spectacle of extraterrestrial mercilessness. From Wordnik.com. [31 Screams: Ann Robinson] Reference
As the caption put it, Behe was cross-examined “with cheerful mercilessness.”. From Wordnik.com. [Plaintiffs' response to DI/FTE - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
In their mercilessness, I find the only chance for mercy I've ever known or wanted. From Wordnik.com. [jaxraven Diary Entry] Reference
In him I sensed practicality, and mercilessness, and intelligence and (pg. 146) power. From Wordnik.com. [Mercenaries Of Gor]
Pulled until the mercilessness of the hate pounded in his head and nearly made him sick. From Wordnik.com. [Stone of Tears]
As for last year's Nobel Laureate, Joseph Brodsky, it takes on the character of mercilessness. From Wordnik.com. [Nobel Prize in Literature 1988 - Presentation Speech] Reference
Below the thin nose was a pinched mouth that exhibited mercilessness-or was it only resolution. From Wordnik.com. [Spaceship of Ancestors]
The great thing about Salammbô, even more important than its physical detail, is its utter mercilessness. From Wordnik.com. [Arthur Koestler] Reference
A five-minute video obtained by the Post over the weekend reveals the savagery and mercilessness of the killers. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-09-01] Reference
Slavery has no respect for the affections, as is evinced by the mercilessness with which she sunders every family tie. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 3, March, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
Phyllis' opisthotonic reaction to being stabbed is almost as animalistic as the opportunistic mercilessness of her tormentors. From Wordnik.com. [31 Screams: Lucy Grantham] Reference
Once Montanus reaches New Thule and its wretched residents, we find that nature's harshness is dwarfed by man's own mercilessness. From Wordnik.com. [Review of The Voyage of the Short Serpenet, by Bernard du Boucheron] Reference
Shouts of “Hang him!” came from the crowd, and Rebecca looked around, appalled by the mercilessness on the faces of those around her. From Wordnik.com. [The Frasers Clay] Reference
All of this has made -- are decisions that have been made by the president himself, demonstrating, I might add, a cruelty and mercilessness that is not an admirable trait. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 21, 2007] Reference
You will receive a unanimous answer: mercilessness. From Wordnik.com. [Center for American Progress Action Fund] Reference
God's mercilessness begins when our mercifulness ends. From Wordnik.com. [Serbia in Light and Darkness With Preface by the Archbishop of Canterbury, (1916)] Reference
"Philistine" today, as being typical of cruelty and mercilessness. From Wordnik.com. [CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]] Reference
He would go on to outdo even his famous namesake for mercilessness. From Wordnik.com. [openDemocracy] Reference
Weeden owned a woman called "Ceal," who was a standing proof of his mercilessness. From Wordnik.com. [My Bondage and My Freedom] Reference
He knew the mercilessness of the red men near at hand, and he was equally merciless to them. From Wordnik.com. [The Young Ranchers or, Fighting the Sioux] Reference
They went at her, poor creature, those two, with all the mercilessness of a couple of wolves. From Wordnik.com. [Cleek, the Master Detective] Reference
There was in Guy Oscard a dogged sense of justice which sometimes amounted to a cruel mercilessness. From Wordnik.com. [With Edged Tools] Reference
His effects are helped by the fact that he is an excellent mimic and by his utter realistic mercilessness. From Wordnik.com. [When Winter Comes to Main Street] Reference
Hobbesian world of economic mercilessness we've allowed to flourish, a nonsensical phrase full of meaningless words. From Wordnik.com. [Vox Nova] Reference
The landsman can know little of the wildness, savageness, and mercilessness of nature till he has been upon the sea. From Wordnik.com. [Winter Sunshine] Reference
So I spend my time, and when I turn and try to lose myself in Nietzsche, his mercilessness flings me into new despair. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Arthur Stirling : the Valley of the Shadow] Reference
It had come with a mercilessness which those who knew him regarded as only to be expected in a man of Pap Shaunbaum's record. From Wordnik.com. [The Triumph of John Kars A Story of the Yukon] Reference
To them the most powerful of motives in human conduct were those of revenge, of prowess in battle, and of mercilessness toward an enemy. From Wordnik.com. [Deerfoot in The Mountains] Reference
They had come to be viewed by their victims as fiends of hate, malignity, and all dark and cruel desperation and mercilessness in passion. From Wordnik.com. [History of the United States, Volume 1 (of 6)] Reference
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