Usually means: Showing no pity or compassion.
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  1. mercilessly: Merriam-Webster
  2. mercilessly: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. mercilessly: Collins English Dictionary
  4. mercilessly: Vocabulary.com
  5. Mercilessly, mercilessly: Wordnik
  6. mercilessly: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. mercilessly: Wiktionary
  8. mercilessly: Dictionary.com
  9. mercilessly: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. mercilessly: Rhymezone
  11. mercilessly: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  12. mercilessly: FreeDictionary.org
  13. mercilessly: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. mercilessly: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. mercilessly: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (mercilessly)

▸ adverb:  In a merciless manner.

Similar:
pitilessly, remorselessly, unmercifully, cruelly, ruthlessly, heartlessly, unsparingly, relentlessly, cruel-heartedly, mercifully, more...

Opposite:
mercifully, compassionately, kindly, graciously, generously

Types:
cruelly, savagely, brutally, inhumanly, atrociously, more...

Phrases:
teased mercilessly, teases mercilessly, more...

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    black,     dark red,     blood red,     charcoal,     midnight blue, more...

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Similar:
pitilessly, remorselessly, unmercifully, cruelly, ruthlessly, heartlessly, unsparingly, relentlessly, cruel-heartedly, mercifully, more...

Opposite:
mercifully, compassionately, kindly, graciously, generously

Types:
cruelly, savagely, brutally, inhumanly, atrociously, more...

Phrases:
teased mercilessly, teases mercilessly, more...

Colors:
    black,     dark red,     blood red,     charcoal,     midnight blue, more...



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