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Meanings of mercilessness in English

Portuguese
crueldade
Catalan
crueltat
Spanish
crueldad
Wikidata

Feelings of extreme heartlessness.

crueldade

Inhumaneness evidenced by an unwillingness to be kind or forgiving.

Usage of mercilessness in English
1
The mottoes on the banners attacked with impartial mercilessness both Democrats and Republicans.
Jailed for Freedom
2
The vile cruelty, the loathsome, unspeakable, dastardly mercilessness of the world.
Flames
3
But the full mercilessness of the migrant dilemma is confronted here to devastating effect.
The Guardian
4
The girl was appalled by the mercilessness of a destiny that had so outraged right.
Within the Law: From the Play of Bayard Veiller
5
There was a glint of mercilessness in his eyes.
The Keeper of the Door
6
Now, although she had not changed, she was like an angel of mercilessness and vengeance.
The Inferno
7
There was an unearthly mercilessness in Norhala's voice.
The Metal Monster
8
There was in Guy Oscard a dogged sense of justice which sometimes amounted to a cruel mercilessness.
With Edged Tools
9
Rothschild kept at Behe with cheerful mercilessness.
The new yorker
10
The mercilessness was quite real.
The illuminatus! trilogy
11
The landsman can know little of the wildness, savageness, and mercilessness of nature till he has been upon the sea.
Winter Sunshine
12
Certain that I was going to die, I implored her to help me, but this only added to her mercilessness.
The Arabian Nights: Tales of 1,001 Nights. Vol. 1
13
He began by applying this rule of terror not vindictively, but with impersonal mercilessness, against the lives and property of the opposition.
The World's Greatest Books — Volume 11 — Ancient and Mediæval Hi...
14
There ran through her a fine vein of mercilessness, but it was without cruelty, it was leavened with both logic and justice.
Parrot & Co.
15
He must come to understand this city, forgive it its mercilessness, or he would be too afraid to do what he must do.
Cry to heaven
16
Falsten, too, came once and examined the character of the rocks, knocking and chipping them about with all the mercilessness of a geologist.
The Survivors of the Chancellor: Diary of J.R. Kazallon, Passeng...
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Translations for mercilessness
Portuguese
crueldade
Catalan
crueltat
Spanish
crueldad
Mercilessness through the time