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pitilessly

adv

Etymology

From pitiless + -ly.

  1. inherited from piteeles
  2. suffixed as pitilessly — “pitiless + ly”

Definitions

  1. 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.
    • They treated the prisoners roughly [...] slashing pitilessly with their whips to drive them as wretched animals before them.

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