Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a merciless manner; cruelly.
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- adverb In a
merciless manner.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb without pity; in a merciless manner
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Examples
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The only reason I can figure out why they bash her so hatefully and mercilessly is that they are scared spitless of her.
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Isn´t it amusing, folks, how cowardly vultures circle endlessly over even the wounded objects of their desire only to move in mercilessly to feast in beastly and repulsive fashion on the carrion once the deliciously and previously unattainable target is stone dead?
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The root ball of my new rosemary plant, on examination, does have the the look of having been hacked mercilessly from a larger bush.
Toast: Lindy 2005
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The root ball of my new rosemary plant, on examination, does have the the look of having been hacked mercilessly from a larger bush.
Rosemary Tree Lindy 2005
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Bush had responded in South Carolina by attacking McCain mercilessly from the right.
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Bush had responded in South Carolina by attacking McCain mercilessly from the right.
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2: Attack it mercilessly from the air around the clock.
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There’s a concern he’s trying to appeal to the “beer and popcorn” crowd, to borrow mercilessly from the Liberal campaign of 2006.
Harper Anti-Intellectualism Anti-Effective « Unambiguously Ambidextrous 2008
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There’s a concern he’s trying to appeal to the “beer and popcorn” crowd, to borrow mercilessly from the Liberal campaign of 2006.
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(I paraphrase mercilessly here from a recent article by Cory Doctorow that I saw somewhere or other (probably via BoingBoing).)
The Volokh Conspiracy » Guestblogging Dictionary Myths: 2007
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