as in ruthless
having or showing a lack of sympathy or tender feelings
she is a merciless competitor at board games of any kind
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The draft being held in Pittsburgh meant the Flyers were subject to merciless booing.
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Joshua Kloke, The Athletic, 8 Mar. 2025
For the last six weeks, Americans have been yanked and ghosted, lurched and launched with a merciless urgency.
—Philip Elliott, TIME, 5 Mar. 2025
Waltz lends a slimy charisma to the merciless SS colonel, who gets a satisfying comeuppance via carving knife.
—Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 28 Feb. 2025
This seeming ideological steadfastness may help explain the merciless march of Kaczynski and his party through Polish institutions between 2015 and 2023.
—Elisabeth Zerofsky, New York Times, 8 Feb. 2025
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Joshua Kloke, The Athletic, 8 Mar. 2025
For the last six weeks, Americans have been yanked and ghosted, lurched and launched with a merciless urgency.
—Philip Elliott, TIME, 5 Mar. 2025
Waltz lends a slimy charisma to the merciless SS colonel, who gets a satisfying comeuppance via carving knife.
—Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 28 Feb. 2025
This seeming ideological steadfastness may help explain the merciless march of Kaczynski and his party through Polish institutions between 2015 and 2023.
—Elisabeth Zerofsky, New York Times, 8 Feb. 2025
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“Merciless.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/merciless. Accessed 27 Apr. 2025.
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