mercilessly

What it means

1. In a merciless manner.

   She mercilessly read off the list of his wrongs in front of their friends.

   2 more examples

   Therefore he whacked the old nigger mercilessly, while a big crowd of his people watched him, thunderstruck[.]

   1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 198

   Uncanny clips of him “mogging” other men — that is, standing next to them and making them look common by comparison — and mercilessly appraising women’s looks have gone viral on TikTok and Instagram.

   2026 February 13, Joseph Bernstein, “Handsome at Any Cost”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 14 Feb 2026

In a sentence

She mercilessly read off the list of his wrongs in front of their friends.

Where it comes from

From merciless + -ly.