Synonym: charity, compassion, kindness, pity, sympathy. Antonym: cruelty. Similar words: at the mercy of, commerce, merchant, commercial, mere, coerce, fierce, pierce. Meaning: ['mɜrsɪ /'mɜːsɪ] n. 1. leniency and compassion shown toward offenders by a person or agency charged with administering justice 2. a disposition to be kind and forgiving 3. the feeling that motivates compassion 4. something for which to be thankful 5. alleviation of distress; showing great kindness toward the distressed.
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181. When her baby was due, Barbara was admitted to the maternity ward of Mercy Hospital.
182. Either by accident or as punishment for his sins, she had left him to the mercy of the Bogeyman.
183. In this country we can count our blessings that our children are not constantly at the mercy of these diseases.
184. He says you're at the mercy of the elements and you just go where the weather takes you.
185. No industrialist liked to put himself at the mercy of creditors.
186. The tide turned when Tamerlane invaded their territory and in 1398 successfully raided Delhi, and sacked it without mercy.
187. If the gladiator fell how many of his colleagues would wave a handkerchief of mercy?
188. A Home Office spokeswoman confirmed last night that Stansted would be used for all future mercy flights.
189. You will achieve more in this world through acts of mercy than you will through acts of retribution. Nelson Mandela
190. Death's mercy has held off all too long, but now I swear to you this is ending.
191. Mad faces pushed against the grilles in the doors, tortured ones begging for mercy.
192. You would be at the mercy of the hall's acoustics and ideally you would need to practise a bit beforehand.
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193. They are putting lives at risk, and the ones who pay are us, here at the mercy of the government.
194. An older historiographical tradition depicted Louis as an impulsive weakling, at the mercy of his overbearing wife.
195. With United Nations help, it's hoped this mercy mission will be the first of many.
196. Without the anchor of personal conviction they are at the mercy of every ebb and flow of opinion.
197. Even compassion for a man so much at the mercy of his physical urges.
198. It meant she could answer without thinking, which was an infinite mercy, for suddenly she was quite incapable of thinking.
199. In such a situation the worker is at the mercy of the capitalist and is therefore exploited.
200. Priest: Lord, we have sinned against you: Lord have mercy.
201. It was a mercy we did, for X-rays revealed not only back trouble, but a massive abdominal aorta aneurysm.
202. The typical peasant farmer has a precarious existence, at the mercy of flood, disease and famine.
203. Rival warlords are also holding up mercy missions with feuds over contracts to take food to drought-ravaged towns and villages.
204. Mercy Newbegin was a good-looking woman who looked even better in the light of the flickering candles.
205. With that relationship gone, they are at the mercy of more laws and more political meddling.
206. His whole life was lived at the mercy of the second favourite planet.
207. The elder brother was shot in the stomach as he knelt pleading for mercy.
208. Any city manager accepts the fact that he or she is at the mercy of the council majority, he said.
209. Leonor has begged mercy for Manrique but the Count refuses.
210. Putting him at the mercy of men like you, Creller?
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