showing or giving mercy
"sought merciful treatment for the captives"
"a merciful god"
used conventionally of royalty and high nobility) gracious
"our merciful king"
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merciful
Let us be merciful as well as just. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]
A merciful man is merciful to his beast. [ Bible ]
A woman is seldom merciful to the man who is timid. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]
True zeal is merciful and mild, can pity and forbear. [ John Newton ]
Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy. [ Bible ]
Masked balls are a merciful institution for ugly people.
O merciful Heaven! may my last season be still a spring! [ Beranger ]
When other people are fretful, do you be merciful and patient.
Stinging envy is more merciful to good things that are old than such as are new. [ Phaedr ]
Thou art a God ready to pardon, gracious aild merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness. [ Bible ]
There is only one cure for public distress, and that is public education, directed to make men thoughtful, merciful, and just. [ John Ruskin ]
Exact justice is commonly more merciful in the long run than pity, for it tends to foster in men those stronger qualities which make them good citizens. [ Lowell ]
All my experience of the world teaches me that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred the safe side and the just side of a question is the generous side and the merciful side. [ Mrs. Jameson ]
mercifulin Scrabble®
The word merciful is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required. Because it is longer than 7 letters, you would have to play off an existing word or do it in several moves.
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The word merciful is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required. Because it is longer than 7 letters, you would have to play off an existing word or do it in several moves.
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