mercilessness

Example Sentences

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This mercilessness will only grow when the playoff expands, and it will expand, because: money.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 27, 2025

As a criminal defense lawyer for 15 years — many of them as a public defender — she’s well acquainted with the mercilessness of America’s criminal justice system.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 4, 2022

Jackson’s Lear movingly bears witness to the mercilessness of old age.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 4, 2019

“Certainly wasn’t an easy decision,” the younger Mr. Goodlatte tweeted in reply to a Twitter user who commented on the mercilessness of the son’s decision to publicly criticize his father.

From New York Times • Aug. 13, 2018

One of the things he’d respected most in his mentor was his mercilessness, his willingness to do hard things for the sake of the cause.

From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo