Translation of merciful – English–Traditional Chinese dictionary
merciful adjective
(PERSON)
merciful adjective
(EVENT/SITUATION)
Examples of merciful
merciful
If somebody refuses to co-operate in keeping the highway clear, surely the merciful preventive provisions of this paragraph of subsection (3) should come into operation.
Only cyanide would be used until we were sure that something more merciful and equally effective or more effective and equally merciful, was available.
Not 'for the chamber full of diamonds ' would he gamble his enterprise against a single, merciful warning.
The public know that he is efficient and that he is fair and merciful.
Considering that you were treated discourteously personally, you have shown an extremely merciful attitude.
There is a merciful procedure which deals with most of them in a relatively painless and not very explosive way.
However, anyone listening casually to this debate would have thought that there were 1,001 reasons why this merciful release should not be conferred upon us.
If it should result in the expulsion from power of our present rulers, it would, indeed, be a merciful deliverance.
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