What are the opposite words for be merciful?

Antonyms for the phrase "be merciful" include words and phrases such as "be cruel," "be harsh," "show no mercy," and "be unforgiving." When one chooses not to show mercy, they may be acting with cruelty or harshness towards others, refusing to extend kindness or forgiveness. To be unforgiving is to hold onto grudges and resentments, rather than showing compassion towards those who may have wronged us. Choosing to be merciful, on the other hand, allows us to see the humanity in others and to extend compassion and forgiveness, even in difficult situations.

What are the antonyms for Be merciful?

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  • relent
  • advance
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  • ascend
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  • build
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  • continue
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  • free
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  • grow
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  • increase
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  • rise
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  • worry
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  • spare
  • hold
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  • keep
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  • need
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Famous quotes with Be merciful

• When strong, be merciful, if you would have the respect, not the fear of your neighbors.

  Chilon
• God seeth different abilities and frailties of men, which may move His goodness to be merciful to their different improvements in virtue.

  William Law
• When open violence appears, to avoid it with honor or choose the least ugly faction; these evils are essential. To keep one's own integrity, be merciful and uncorrupted and not wish for evil; and not be duped By dreams of universal justice or happiness. These dreams will not be fulfilled.

  Robinson Jeffers
• I told him how we kept fewer forms between us and God; retaining, indeed, no more than, perhaps, the nature of mankind in the mass rendered necessary for due observance. I told him I could not look on flowers and tinsel, on wax- lights and embroidery, at such times and under such circumstances as should be devoted to lifting the secret vision to Him whose home is Infinity, and His being — Eternity. That when I thought of sin and sorrow, of earthly corruption, mortal depravity, weighty temporal woe — I could not care for chanting priests or mumming officials; that when the pains of existence and the terrors of dissolution pressed before me — when the mighty hope and measureless doubt of the future arose in view — _then_, even the scientific strain, or the prayer in a language learned and dead, harassed: with hindrance a heart which only longed to cry — "God be merciful to me, a sinner!"

  Charlotte Brontë
• I'm not a tyrant, but I can't afford to be merciful. Whatever it is necessary to do, I will do it.

  P. D. James

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