Meanings
comparative more unmercifully · superlative most unmercifully
- In an unmerciful manner.
They unmercifully bundled me and my gallant second into our own hackney coach.
1835, Theodore Hook, Gilbert Gurney1 more example
These men lashed themselves and each other unmercifully with knotted leather scourges until the blood ran, two or three times daily.
1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 99
Synonyms & antonyms
adverbwithout pity; in a merciless manner
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
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