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Recent Examples of mercilessly
For the past few months, thousands of people have been sharing their sightings online and mercilessly poking fun.
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CBS News, 10 Jan. 2026
Back in their teenage years, Lexi’s older sister Andrea is depicted as a mean girl who ridicules Catherine mercilessly.
—Sam Reed, Glamour, 9 Jan. 2026
Olympia’s client is Diego Castillo, a firefighter who claims that he was mercilessly mocked and hazed by his peers after bringing his husband to a company cookout.
—Noel Murray, Vulture, 12 Dec. 2025
Gossip Girl centered around a group of wealthy high school students who are being terrorized by a mysterious and vicious blogger (who was voiced by Kristen Bell) who mercilessly spills all of their secrets.
—Shania Russell, Entertainment Weekly, 5 Nov. 2025
The crowd boos Glen so mercilessly.
—Katie Campione, Deadline, 28 Oct. 2025
Italy’s performance at World Cup 1978 and Euro 1980 on home soil was decent enough, but their sluggish form going into the tournament meant he was mercilessly mocked in the Italian press.
—Michael Cox, New York Times, 26 Oct. 2025
Both sides have been fighting mercilessly over Sudanese gold mines.
—Charlie Campbell, Time, 15 Oct. 2025
Be Ruthless In Your Shoe Edit Shoes are notoriously bulky, but Jones recommends editing mercilessly.
—Alesandra Dubin, Southern Living, 29 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for mercilessly
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One year before Ingri and Edgar Parin D’Aulaire published their compendium of Greek myths, Cicellis released her second work of fiction, The Way to Colonos, which ruthlessly dramatizes the limits of individual freedom and the agony of facing one’s powerlessness.—
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Erik Satie took down the arrogance of late Romantic classical music, gently but ruthlessly taking up its vocabulary and removing all the excess, including authorship.—
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The first hour, set at a resort that’s like a singles cruise through the Twilight Zone (or Bachelor in Paradise beamed in from a brutal alternate universe), contains some of the most pitilessly funny scenes of the filmmaker’s career.—
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In the process, Joel heartlessly killed some innocent people, including medical professionals.—
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There is a troubling suggestion of abuse, implying that Jack might have been ill-treated by his mom (and saved by Helen), rather than heartlessly abandoned.—
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The director plays up the humor a lot more than Westlake’s callously cynical prose, for better or worse.—
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But after the Sriracha-maker callously withheld payments from Underwood, the relationship deteriorated and litigation followed.—
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Kahlo vibrantly and unsparingly depicted herself and events from her life, which was upended by a bus accident at 18.—
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Kahlo vibrantly and unsparingly depicted herself and events from her life, which was upended by a bus accident at 18.—
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Shortly after release, Fuentes-Ponce and Escobar brutally murdered that young girl.—
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His young colleague in the District Attorney’s office, Carolyn Polhemus (Renate Reinsve), has just been brutally murdered.—
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In this volatile environment, comments that appear to minimize or frame the shooting insensitively—like Matt Gutman's—can quickly become career-ending.—
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Sahroni has faced accusations of responding insensitively to people calling for parliament to be dissolved amid anger over lawmakers’ allowances.—
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After decades of obdurately refusing to entertain the idea of bestowing its computers with touch screens, rumor has it that Apple might finally offer this capability.—
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“Mercilessly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mercilessly. Accessed 20 Jan. 2026.
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