merciless
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He was exacting, charming and merciless in equal measure.
From BBC • Apr. 10, 2026
The 1972 peak was followed by a merciless recession in the mid-1970s, and a heartbreaking stock market bust.
From Barron's • Dec. 31, 2025
Martin Amis, a merciless observer of foibles, puts one writer’s envy of another at the heart of “The Information.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 5, 2025
If, in 1793, you were going to visit the full-scale model of the guillotine exhibited at S. W. Fores’ Piccadilly print shop, you could hardly miss these merciless cartoons.
From Slate • Jul. 21, 2025
Even from that distance, and even in that urgent second or so, Will felt himself searched and scoured from one end of his being to the other by some vast, brutal, and merciless intellect.
From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman
Vocabulary lists containing merciless
Hamilton
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Theodore Roosevelt on "The Man with the Muck Rake" (1906)
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