mercilessness

noun

Definition of mercilessnessnext
as in ruthlessness

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for mercilessness
  1. cruelty
  2. savagery
  3. inhumanity
  4. barbarity
  5. sadism
  6. brutality
  7. ferocity
Noun
  • The verdict came after the mother pleaded guilty to four charges of child cruelty at a hearing on Oct. 9, the CPS confirmed.
    Becca Longmire, People.com, 27 Nov. 2024
  • The sanctuary receives turkeys from factory farm workers who rescue them, anonymous drop-offs, animal cruelty cases, law enforcement and from individual farmers who initially purchase the turkeys and then grow attached.
    Maya Blackstone, CNN, 27 Nov. 2024
Definition of cruelty
Noun
  • Hamas’s savagery was backed by an aggressive Iran that is supported by the authoritarian axis; as such, October 7 was a direct assault on the free world.
    Ari Shavit, Foreign Affairs, 5 Oct. 2024
  • The point of all that money, like of the attack on Porter, has been to draw attention to Silicon Valley’s financial might—and to prove that its leaders are capable of political savagery in order to protect their interests.
    Charles Duhigg, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2024
Definition of savagery
Noun
  • Nonetheless, the authorities have responded by instigating fear and treating citizens with inhumanity.
    Maryia Sadouskaya-Komlach, Foreign Affairs, 18 Aug. 2020
  • Throughout his diary, excerpts of which we are honored to share today with our readers, Navalny writes with a fierce moral clarity about the inhumanity of Vladimir Putin’s regime, and about the power of its opposite force—the humanity of his fellow-countrymen.
    David Remnick, The New Yorker, 11 Oct. 2024
Definition of inhumanity
Noun
  • In the face of tragedy and crisis and inequality and barbarity, artists make work.
    Chadd Scott, Forbes, 2 Oct. 2024
  • Italy’s solitary-confinement policy—a regulation called carcere duro, or hard prison—is controversial in northern Europe, where it is seen as an example of southern barbarity.
    D. T. Max, The New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2024
Definition of barbarity
Noun
  • Meanwhile, Bill Moseley enters the franchise as Chop-Top, a new family member who was apparently in Vietnam during the events of the first film and has returned with a metal plate in his head and a penchant for grating sadism.
    Daniel Dockery, Vulture, 11 Oct. 2024
  • Popular on Variety But Art the Clown takes the concept of enjoying homicidal sadism to new levels of sick-puppy insanity.
    Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 11 Oct. 2024
Definition of sadism
Noun
  • In one scenario, our species could emerge so transformed as to avoid entirely the brutality of human conduct.
    Henry A. Kissinger, Foreign Affairs, 18 Nov. 2024
  • House Atreides, from which the films’ protagonist Paul (Timothee Chalamet) hails, has a righteousness and goodness that, in contrast to the Harkonnens’ brutality, makes the two families enemies.
    Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 14 Nov. 2024
Definition of brutality
Noun
  • Through a combination of Coppola reorganizing the shooting schedule to give Pacino some more emotive scenes up front and Pacino forcing his trademark ferocity to the surface, The Godfather eventually got back on track.
    Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 17 Oct. 2024
  • After Beethoven died in 1827, musical Europe paid its demigod homage by building ever more generous halls to enshrine his music — halls that neutralized its trapped, cage-rattling ferocity.
    Justin Davidson, Curbed, 16 Oct. 2024
Definition of ferocity
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