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Recent Examples of unmerciful The result was unmerciful but gloriously funny, especially when Christine Baranski‘s liberal Diane Lockhart hallucinated news reports about Trump keeping a potbellied pig in the White House map room. Lynette Rice, Deadline, 20 May 2025 The drought is a source of mockery towards RCB, with opposition fans unmerciful in their scorn towards them and particularly Kohli. Tristan Lavalette, Forbes, 20 Mar. 2025 Yet viewers admire Oz’s aptitude to survive, his unmerciful resolve. Jason Parham, WIRED, 26 Dec. 2024 His take on Prince Philip is both humanizing and unmerciful, cutting to the bone of a man portrayed in contradictory terms — petulant yet statesmanlike, intensely ambitious yet ineffectual, relatable one minute and contemptible the next. Will Harris, EW.com, 30 July 2024 The temperature climbed as more gas pushed and compressed itself into the small space, and the heat became unmerciful, exacerbated by the syrupy sensation of the increasingly dense atmosphere. Rachel Lance, WIRED, 16 Apr. 2024 In Nazi ideology, descent was destiny—inescapable, unmerciful, and total. Fintan O’Toole, The New York Review of Books, 20 July 2023 What hit viewers, then and now, with the strength of an unmerciful iceberg is how entirely uncynical this movie is. Chris Snellgrove, EW.com, 15 Dec. 2022 How have Willis and Kastor excelled for 20 years and more in that unmerciful context? Roger Robinson, Outside Online, 18 Feb. 2021
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unmerciful
Adjective
  • As a Millennial what’s your take on Gen Z’s excessive use of exclamation points?
    Frank DiGiacomo, Billboard, 9 June 2025
  • These messages often include cluttered formatting, excessive explanations and an increasing number of typos or design errors.
    Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 8 June 2025
Adjective
  • Related Stories Said to be the first book in a series, Little Hands watches as a young British woman with a mysterious past inadvertently joins a ruthless gang of female thieves who rob the ultra-wealthy along the French Riviera.
    Matt Grobar, Deadline, 9 June 2025
  • This is because the film, which Anderson both wrote (alongside Roman Coppola) and directed, centers on wealthy business tycoon Zsa-Zsa Korda (Benicio del Toro), who, thanks to his often ruthless deal-making, has become a frequent target of assassination attempts.
    EW.com, EW.com, 6 June 2025
Adjective
  • These warnings meant boaters along the coast faced immediate risk of capsizing or damage due to extreme sea and wind conditions.
    Barney Henderson, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 June 2025
  • In response, governments, NGOs, and the local people are striving to instill resilience into coastal communities, strengthen homes and infrastructure to better cope with extreme weather, and diversify incomes to mitigate the impact of a changing climate.
    Charlie Campbell, Time, 5 June 2025
Adjective
  • The film is cold-bloodedly whimsical, asking the audience to root for a merciless man who endeavors, ever so incrementally, to understand some deeper human truths.
    David Sims, The Atlantic, 6 June 2025
  • Unless stopped, Trump and the Republicans who follow him may go down as the most merciless and morally bankrupt leaders this country has ever produced.
    Tom Debley, Mercury News, 4 June 2025
Adjective
  • Amanda learned in like 10 seconds, which is insane.
    Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 Mar. 2025
  • The emu egg—a two pound, eight-inch ovoid with a sultry teal shell gently speckled in pale green—seemed like just the right absurdist final flourish for an already insane endeavor.
    Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 23 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Eight years ago, Hurricane Harvey barreled in off the Gulf of Mexico and lingered, pouring four days of rain over the city of Houston. Unlike North Carolina's steep mountains, Houston is low, barely rising above sea level.
    Laura Sullivan, NPR, 8 June 2025
  • In contrast, late adopters face higher opportunity costs, slower innovation cycles, and steeper learning curves.
    Rhett Power, Forbes.com, 8 June 2025
Adjective
  • An extravagant estate long owned by the late Orange County Air Force major general turned homebuilder and civic leader William Lyon has roared onto the market in Southern California.
    Wendy Bowman, Robb Report, 6 June 2025
  • Arnault confessed to intense curiosity about how Anderson will interpret the legacy of Dior, whose founder ignited postwar Paris with his extravagant, full-skirted New Look and whose brief career ended with his death in 1957.
    Miles Socha, Footwear News, 2 June 2025
Adjective
  • There was a giant dump truck of Destiny 2: Edge of Fate information out this past week due to a large-scale creator event that produced an infinite number of YouTube videos on aspects of the new expansion.
    Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 5 June 2025
  • Here, the body is the frame, which holds the infinite gestural archives within movement, while highlighting the female form as both the subject and the lens; the image and the image-maker.
    Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 June 2025

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