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Unmerciful

Unmerciful \Un*mer"ci*ful\, a. Not merciful; indisposed to mercy or grace; cruel; inhuman; merciless; unkind. -- Un*mer"ci*ful*ly, adv. -- Un*mer"ci*ful*ness, n.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
unmerciful

late 15c., from un- (1) "not" + merciful (adj.). Related: Unmercifully.

Wiktionary
unmerciful

a. not showing mercy

WordNet
unmerciful

adj. having or showing no mercy; "the merciless enemy"; "a merciless critic"; "gave him a merciless beating" [syn: merciless] [ant: merciful]

Usage examples of "unmerciful".

They had come probing deep into Shilmista on orders from Ragnor, the brutish, unmerciful ogrillon.

The one confirmed the other: the fact that the merciful will go to Heaven, and the unmerciful to hell, meant that everybody ought to be merciful, and the malefactor having been forgiven by Christ meant that Christ was merciful.

Eleventh heard that it was to winter with Labienus its men groaned, then resolved to be good boys and hoped that the following winter would see it with Fabius or Trebonius, strict commanders yet not unmerciful.

When Mr. George is dry, he goes to work to brush his head with two hard brushes at once, to that unmerciful degree that Phil, shouldering his way round the gallery in the act of sweeping it, winks with sympathy.

The same brutal quality, the same quick ferocity, the same unmerciful eyes looking out of the same balaclavas.

It says that those who turn themselves over to the devil to work his evil ways are “filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness, full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity, whisperers, backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, without understanding, covenant-breakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful: Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.

I being extreamly troubled at their Inhumane dealings, uttered a hasty Speech (That God would take vengeance on them, and desired that God would deliver us out of the hands of unmerciful men.

Until your younger sister fends out about it and the whole family gives you an unmerciful ragging.