MERCILESSLY Synonyms: 62 Similar and Opposite Words

mercilessly

adverb

as in ruthlessly

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Recent Examples of mercilessly Despite her clear influence, Rico was mercilessly heckled by Carti fans during her performance at the Portland tour stop. — Mehan Jayasuriya, Pitchfork, 24 July 2026 Long pants in summer may not be at the top of your shopping list, but this set is so handy (and polished) for travel days or times in the office when the AC is mercilessly blasting. — Annie Blackman, InStyle, 23 July 2026 For the second year in a row, this quiet Hill Country town is digging itself out of a catastrophe that has mercilessly taken a community trying to heal and set them back on the path of mourning. — Alaa Elassar, CNN Money, 20 July 2026 An ensuing mob of fans trying to take the stadium shuttle to the Netherlands-Tunisia match got mercilessly down poured on. — Sophie Lindberg, Kansas City Star, 14 July 2026 All Harris needed was a 10-men England side to hold on as El Tri mercilessly delivered crosses into the box. — Fisher Isbell, AJC.com, 7 July 2026 It’s been blistering in New York City, with temperatures registering in the high 90s on successive days, then climbing to 100 degrees Thursday and mercilessly extending into the Fourth of July. — Roni Jacobson, New York Daily News, 5 July 2026 Swift was mercilessly dragged into court proceedings when Baldoni accused Lively of leveraging Swift to intimidate him during the shoot. — Marc Malkin, Variety, 2 July 2026 The second Test was all over rapidly and mercilessly on Sunday when Matt Henry took the remaining five wickets within the first hour to finish with 11 in the match. — Paul Newman, New York Times, 21 June 2026

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This summer will not repeat the last, where 14 new players arrived at a cost of £170million ($228m) to ruthlessly overhaul a promotion-winning squad.

— Philip Buckingham, New York Times, 22 July 2026
But when the swirl of events beyond their control caught them into something immeasurably larger than a single game of soccer, not even the strength of their new mentality was enough to prevent them from being ruthlessly swept away.

— Mark Sappenfield, Christian Science Monitor, 7 July 2026

Definition of ruthlessly

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Victim Nyron Shaw’s father said the driver who mowed his son down last year in Ocean Hill a day before Independence Day should face the maximum penalty for allegedly driving twice the speed limit and heartlessly taking off, leaving his son to die.

— Nicholas Williams, New York Daily News, 8 Apr. 2026
In the process, Joel heartlessly killed some innocent people, including medical professionals.

— EW.com, EW.com, 26 Aug. 2025

Definition of heartlessly

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Conventional wisdom callously had it that audiences might never return, especially after the pandemic in 2020 was followed in short order in 2023 by two prolonged industrywide strikes.

— Adam Aron, Variety, 29 July 2026
The department was known to operate callously, firing people by email or locking them out of buildings.

— Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 10 June 2026

Definition of callously

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Kahlo vibrantly and unsparingly depicted herself and events from her life, which was upended by a bus accident at 18.

— Hannah Schoenbaum, Fortune, 24 Nov. 2025
The episode unsparingly examines cultural assumptions about race and colorism; similarly, HIM is a scathing critique of how professional sports capitalize upon the bodies and minds of Black athletes.

— Neda Ulaby, NPR, 19 Sep. 2025

Definition of unsparingly

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In 2022, four University of Idaho students were brutally stabbed to death in their off-campus home.

— Britt Hayes, Entertainment Weekly, 30 July 2026
Before dawn on November 13, 2022, four students at the University of Idaho—Madison Mogen, Kaylee Goncalves, Ethan Chapin, and Xana Kernodle—were brutally murdered in an off-campus home.

— ForbesTV, Forbes.com, 28 July 2026

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