pitilessly

From pitiless +‎ -ly.

• Audio (US):

  (file)

pitilessly (comparative more pitilessly, superlative most pitilessly)

1. In a pitiless manner.
   • 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:

     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.

   • 1966, James Workman, The Mad Emperor, Melbourne, Sydney: Scripts, page 60:

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