mercilessly exploit

Frequency: 6.99.5 per million words

to exploit someone without showing any mercy or pity

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Examples (10)

  • The factory owners mercilessly exploit their workers with 16-hour shifts.
  • Some companies mercilessly exploit consumer data for profit.
  • The dictator would mercilessly exploit any weakness in his opponents.
  • Loan sharks mercilessly exploit people in desperate financial situations.
  • The landlord mercilessly exploits tenants by charging excessive rent.
  • Human traffickers mercilessly exploit vulnerable individuals.
  • The corporation mercilessly exploited the environmental disaster for media attention.
  • Scammers mercilessly exploit elderly people's trust and confusion.
  • The regime mercilessly exploited ethnic tensions to maintain power.
  • Predatory lenders mercilessly exploit low-income families' desperation.