pitilessly
advEtymology From pitiless + -ly.
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In a pitiless manner.
- The simple questions of the tattered man had been knife thrusts to him. They asserted a society that probes pitilessly at secrets until all is apparent.1895 October, Stephen Crane, chapter X, in The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC, page 106:
- They treated the prisoners roughly [...] slashing pitilessly with their whips to drive them as wretched animals before them.1966, James Workman, The Mad Emperor, Melbourne, Sydney: Scripts, page 60: