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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Unmerciful \Un*mer"ci*ful\, adjective Not merciful; indisposed to mercy or grace; cruel; inhuman; merciless; unkind. -- {Un*mer"ci*ful*ly}, adverb -- {Un*mer"ci*ful*ness}, noun
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
unmerciful
adjective: having or showing no mercy; "the merciless enemy"; "a merciless critic"; "gave him a merciless beating" [syn: {merciless}] [ant: {merciful}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
48 Moby Thesaurus words for "unmerciful": barbarous, bowelless, brutal, brutish, callous, calloused, cold, cold of heart, coldblooded, coldhearted, cruel, dog-eat-dog, flinthearted, flinty, hard, hard of heart, hardened, hardhearted, harsh, heartless, inclement, inexorable, insensitive, mean, merciless, obdurate, pitiless, relentless, remorseless, ruthless, savage, stonyhearted, uncompassionate, uncompassioned, unfeeling, unforgiving, unkind, unnatural, unpitiful, unpitying, unremorseful, unresponsive, unsparing, unsympathetic, unsympathizing, unyielding, vicious, without mercy
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