Adjective : to talk for an unmerciful length of time. From Dictionary.com.
Shockingly disreputable, aren't I, and hardly dressed to make the acquaintance of a ladyV And he had stressed that last word unmercifully, making her colour up painfully. From Wordnik.com. [Lovers Touch]
Spaniards met on their way was unmercifully treated. From Wordnik.com. [The Philippine Islands] Reference
And yet he did hate most unmercifully to show the white feather. From Wordnik.com. [The Airplane Boys among the Clouds or, Young Aviators in a Wreck] Reference
You are just the kind of a man that women fool most unmercifully. From Wordnik.com. [The Love Affairs of an Old Maid] Reference
At that time it was the custom to cram children rather unmercifully. From Wordnik.com. [The Genius] Reference
They lived for some days in earth holes, and the weather flayed them unmercifully. From Wordnik.com. [The Seventeenth Highland Light Infantry (Glasgow Chamber of Commerce Battalion) Record of War Service, 1914-1918] Reference
Sun will soon be unmercifully hot, and the canyon isn't exactly within walking distance. From Wordnik.com. [Tabitha's Vacation] Reference
Generally, this group was humanely treated, but occasionally one was unmercifully beaten. From Wordnik.com. [Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 2] Reference
They liked me well enough, but used to guy me unmercifully for my simplicity and clumsiness. From Wordnik.com. [Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison Fifteen Years in Solitude] Reference
Despite all of these of these explanations, people are unmercifully making fun of the Bulldogs. From Wordnik.com. [Drake brands itself a D-plus] Reference
Victor was then again put to the rack, unmercifully beaten with batons, and again sent to prison. From Wordnik.com. [Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs] Reference
At every meeting he was mocked unmercifully; and, finally, in spite of his softness, he got angry. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Baggy and Hughey were unmercifully scored for their cowardice, and were ridiculed for days afterward. From Wordnik.com. [Watch Yourself Go By] Reference
The driver is comfortable, but the passengers with no backs for support are tossed about unmercifully. From Wordnik.com. [Travels in the Far East] Reference
He came back and condemned me and my show unmercifully; my manner, matter, and voice were all bad, and. From Wordnik.com. [The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol 2 (of 2)] Reference
The camel is called the "ship of the desert," but surely no ship ever pitched and rolled so unmercifully. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, September, 1878] Reference
What was he doing with that fellow, Wyndham, who knocked about your cousin so unmercifully at the sand-pits?. From Wordnik.com. [The Hero of Garside School] Reference
Percy had to acknowledge that only Spurling's opportune appearance had saved him from being pounded unmercifully. From Wordnik.com. [Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good] Reference
Philip won't want anyone but Olive, and Olive will snub me unmercifully if I venture to offer myself as an escort. From Wordnik.com. [Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter] Reference
They were taxed and levied so unjustly and unmercifully that whole districts were reduced to absolute destitution. From Wordnik.com. [General Gordon Saint and Soldier] Reference
He joked his partner unmercifully, and Johnny accepted defeat gracefully, never giving the matter a second thought. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories] Reference
At Captain's Post a cat had a family of kittens, just learning to walk, hidden in a haymow, when we were shelled unmercifully. From Wordnik.com. [The Emma Gees] Reference
He then put a slip noose around its upper lip and led it unmercifully, while Curtis encouraged it from behind with a rope-end. From Wordnik.com. [The Blood of the Conquerors] Reference
The first, second, and third relief expeditions, we called them, and teased the officer in charge unmercifully over his hard luck. From Wordnik.com. [A Woman's Journey through the Philippines On a Cable Ship that Linked Together the Strange Lands Seen En Route] Reference
Satanta called his attention to the battle on the Nine Mile Ridge as well as to the massacre where they had suffered so unmercifully. From Wordnik.com. [The Second William Penn A true account of incidents that happened along the old Santa Fe Trail] Reference
The cartoonists, however, reveling in a new and tempting subject, caricatured her unmercifully, the New York Graphic setting the tone. From Wordnik.com. [Susan B. Anthony Rebel, Crusader, Humanitarian] Reference
Boyne; because the Orange fist would punch the Fenian head unmercifully, and occasionally he and the Fenian leagued together against the. From Wordnik.com. [Real Ghost Stories] Reference
He was an unjust steward, grinding the tenants unmercifully, and enriching himself not only at their expense but at that of his employer. From Wordnik.com. [The Cornwall Coast] Reference
He scolded him unmercifully when, through his eagerness to please him, he happened to drop the sharp corner of a rail on his uncle's hand. From Wordnik.com. [Hidden Treasure] Reference
Mordecai's wife became the object of their insults, and in the resistance which she and her husband offered, both were beaten unmercifully. From Wordnik.com. [Rabbi and Priest A Story] Reference
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