Synonyms for mercilessness
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : mur-si-lis |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈmɜr sɪ lɪs |
Top 10 synonyms for mercilessness
- animality
- bestiality
- bloodthirstiness
- brutishness
- callousness
- coarseness
- coldness
- cruelty
- despotism
- fiendishness
- fierceness
- grudge
- hard-heartedness
- heartlessness
- implacableness
- insensibility
- insensitiveness
- malignity
- masochism
- mercilessness
- murderousness
- rancor
- rancorousness
- resentment
- retaliation
- revenge
- sadism
- savageness
- savagery
- spite
- spitefulness
- torture
- truculence
- truculency
- unfeelingness
- unkindness
- vengefulness
- venom
- viciousness
- wickedness
Définition of mercilessness
Origin :- late 14c., see mercy + -less. Related: Mercilessly.
- As in savagery : noun cruelty
- As in spitefulness : noun vindictiveness
- As in truculence : noun cruelty
- As in truculency : noun cruelty
- As in vengefulness : noun vindictiveness
- As in cruelty : noun brutality, harshness
- The girl was appalled by the mercilessness of a destiny that had so outraged right.
- Extract from : « Within the Law » by Marvin Dana
- The mercilessness and cruelty of the Spartans were proverbial.
- Extract from : « Aristotle and Ancient Educational Ideals » by Thomas Davidson
- God will rule the world by justice as long as we rule it by our mercilessness.
- Extract from : « Serbia in Light and Darkness » by Nikolaj Velimirovic
- Taltavull shrieked for the driver to quicken, and the driver used the butt of his whip-stock with true Southern mercilessness.
- Extract from : « The Recipe for Diamonds » by Charles John Cutcliffe Wright Hyne
- Djezzar means butcher: he had well earned this title by the mercilessness of his administration.
- Extract from : « The History of Napoleon Buonaparte » by John Gibson Lockhart
- In the character of Peter there was a singular compound of magnanimity and of the most brutal insensibility and mercilessness.
- Extract from : « The Empire of Russia » by John S. C. Abbott
- 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.
- Extract from : « The Triumph of John Kars » by Ridgwell Cullum
- This Weeden owned a woman called "Ceal," who was a standing proof of his mercilessness.
- Extract from : « My Bondage and My Freedom » by Frederick Douglass
- There ran through her a fine vein of mercilessness, but it was without cruelty, it was leavened with both logic and justice.
- Extract from : « Parrot & Co. » by Harold MacGrath
- Slavery has no respect for the affections, as is evinced by the mercilessness with which she sunders every family tie.
- Extract from : « Continental Monthly , Vol V. Issue III. March, 1864 » by Various
Antonyms for mercilessness
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