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Example sentences for "unmerciful"

Lexicographically close words:
unmelting; unmended; unmentionable; unmentionables; unmentioned; unmercifully; unmerited; unmethodical; unmetrical; unmilitary
  1. There is no blessedness except in being such as God; it would be altogether unmerciful to leave us unmerciful.

  2. In the parable of the king taking account of his servants, he delivers the unmerciful debtor to the tormentors, 'till he should pay all that was due unto him.

  3. What an unmerciful interpreter is conscience!

  4. People thought the press unmerciful in its ridicule of that convention, but I felt in it all there was much forbearance.

  5. He and the party which had made his methods its own by nominating him, were held up to the most unmerciful ridicule.

  6. All, with one consent, said that he could not refuse that vocation, unless he would declare himself rebellious unto his God, and unmerciful to his country.

  7. There were none within the realm more unmerciful to the poor ministers than were they which had greatest rents of the churches.

  8. Lance was rapidly passing from one stage of misery to the other, from the unmerciful to the merciful woe.

  9. The Pharisees were scandalized at our Lord's dining with sinners, because they themselves were unmerciful (Matt.

  10. A sheep has also been shown to them, or still is, after which another unmerciful flogging is administered, amidst cries of "Ware sheep!

  11. Neptune then performed the office of barber himself, taking a long piece of iron which had once served as the hoop of a tun, he scraped their chins in the most unmerciful manner.

  12. Then the King called the unmerciful servant to him, and said, "O thou wicked servant; I forgave thee all that debt, because thou desiredst me.

  13. My folly has put an end to her happiness, and brought upon her the cruelty of an unmerciful devil.

  14. He trembled at the sight of this unmerciful wretch, and at the very thoughts of the sufferings he was to endure for another year, at the conclusion of which he was to die the most horrible death.

  15. Or else, in anguish of soul, sighingly to say, "O thou tyrannous and unmerciful world!

  16. Surely, the heathen gods on their mountains could not possibly have given a more unmerciful set of commandments than those which Jehovah dictated to Moses.

  17. The way he ascertained the mind of the Lord shows him to have been as superstitious as he was unmerciful and cowardly.

  18. He was generous to his friends and equals, but proud, dominant, overbearing, to inferiors, and utterly unmerciful to whatever set itself up against him.

  19. He is despotic, and unmerciful to insubordination; he would shoot a fellow down with as little remorse as he would shoot a buck, if he opposed him.

  20. She was left at the house to creep under the feet of an unmerciful old mistress, whom I have known to slap with her hand the face of little Frances, for crying after her mother, until her little face was left black and blue.

  21. Logically this parable may be conveniently associated with that of the unmerciful servant.

  22. A comparison of this proportion, with that which appears in the parable of the unmerciful servant, is interesting.

  23. The charge of murder, which he had honestly admitted, united to Gaspard's unmerciful sentence, had filled and eaten up his proud, free breast with poisonous shame.

  24. I think there can be no doubt of it; and at such a time with so few defenders, and so unmerciful and vigilant an enemy, although we have not much cause to fear defeat, yet that result is possible.

  25. Her heart at once sympathised with the wrongs of the Tuscarora; and the picture which her imagination drew of Singing-Bird in captivity in the hands of those unrelenting and unmerciful enemies, brought tears to her eyes.

  26. His début was made in unmerciful satires on the works of the poetasters, and he continued to plead the cause of reason against rhyme, of true poetry against false.

  27. Whenever Rome was false to treaties, unmerciful in victory, or unsuccessful in arms, he either ignores the facts or is anxious to find excuses.

  28. I am not unmerciful when I refuse to give the poor the money needed to pay an honest debt; nor is the Governor unmerciful when he refuses to pardon the condemned and unrepentant criminal.

  29. We therefore give you to understand that our stout, furious, and unmerciful Diabolus is raising, for your relief, and the ruin of the rebellious town of Mansoul, more than twenty thousand doubters to come against that people.


  30. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "unmerciful" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    callous; cold; cruel; cutthroat; flinty; hard; hardened; hardhearted; harsh; heartless; inclement; inexorable; insensitive; merciless; obdurate; pitiless; relentless; remorseless; ruthless; savage; unfeeling; unforgiving; unmerciful; unnatural; unresponsive; unsympathetic; unyielding