unpityinglyadv.
/(ˌ)ʌnˈpɪtɪɪŋli/, U.S. /ˌənˈpɪdiɪŋli/ Pitilessly, without pity.
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the mind > emotion > compassion > pitilessness > [adverb]
unpiteouslyc1390
unruefullya1400
unruthfullya1400
vengeably1412
ruthlessly1581
unpitifully1587
inhumanely1598
pitilessly1611
uncompassionately1612
incompassionately1639
unpityingly1741
impitiably1835
tearlessly1853
1741 S. Richardson Pamela IV. lxiii. 422 [She] listens eagerly to Stories told to the Disadvantage of Individuals of her own Sex... Will unpityingly propagate such Stories.
1799 Parl. Reg. 1797–1802 VII. 203 As they left us contentedly to our fate, we consign them unpityingly to theirs.
1817 Lady Morgan France I. 4 The smallest infringement of the dreadful code was unpityingly punished.
1867 S. Smiles Huguenots Eng. & Ireland i. 20 Wherever heresy appeared, it was crushed, unsparingly, unpityingly.
1936 L. M. Montgomery Anne of Windy Poplars ii. xi. 218 ‘Then don't suffer,’ she said unpityingly.
1989 J. Trollope Village Affair x. 160 Seizing her custard powder and her string, and gobbling to herself faintly in her distress, she scuttled from the shop into the street. Fred Mott watched her unpityingly from his window.
2008 Times Lit. Suppl. 13 June 19/3 Their confusion and disorientation, unpityingly magnified when they are allowed back into Israel on leave.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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