merciful
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merciful (ˈmɜːsɪfʊl) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —adj | |
| showing or giving mercy; compassionate | |
| 'mercifulness | |
| —n | |
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Merciful
is always a great word to know.
So is callithumpian. Does it mean:
| a gadget; dingus; thingumbob. |
| a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes. |
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Example sentences
There is no reason to believe otherwise, because the people of that region are merciful and in no way cruel.
It's probably a merciful thing that pain is impossible to describe from memory.
Student, students are merciful and recognised they chew something.
Having learned about what went on in an army hospital, the dead ones may have had the more merciful of endings.
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