mercifully
IPA: mˈɝsɪfʌɫi
adverb
- In a merciful manner.
- Thankfully.
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Examples of "mercifully" in Sentences
- Let me back up and say they also get a book that is what my wife calls mercifully short.
- I'm attending a history conference this weekend, which makes this weekly Robin mercifully short.
- [A] wry new memoir … [Kamen] intertwines her journey (which, mercifully, is often comical) with the latest medical research.
- By the time the school sausages had been shown to us and refused for the 87th consecutive time and Latin mercifully dispatched I had, in turn, commanded the
- Much of the privileged leadership of the Ancien Régime had lost their heads to the guillotine, a device invented to "mercifully" eliminate an entire class of people.
- Much of the privileged leadership of the Ancien Régime had lost their heads to the guillotine, a device invented to "mercifully" eliminate an entire class of people.
- When his term mercifully expires next year, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger will be leaving the Golden State in the worst condition than at any time its history.
- Nick Moreno roped a grand slam and Reed Brown hit a solo shot to power an offense that scored in all but one inning before finally being called mercifully in the sixth inning.
- The men opened a store in a settlement called Bayou Sara, which "sat beside a leisurely stream once known as Bayou Gonorrhea, the origin of that name mercifully forgotten," Mr. Davis writes.
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