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Pitilessly

Pitiless \Pit"i*less\, a.

  1. Destitute of pity; hard-hearted; merciless; as, a pitilessmaster; pitiless elements.

  2. Exciting no pity; as, a pitiless condition. [1913 Webster] -- Pit"i*less*ly, adv. -- Pit"i*less*ness, n.

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pitilessly

adv. In a pitiless manner.

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pitilessly

adv. without pity; in a merciless manner; "he was mercilessly trounced by his opponent in the House" [syn: mercilessly, unmercifully, remorselessly]

Usage examples of "pitilessly".

His keen eyes still scanned John Star pitilessly, while his thin fingers continued to turn the silver toy on his desk.

After an early breakfast the following morning, he started for the mountains, and no wild beast that ever roamed them would have torn him more pitilessly than did his own outraged sense of honor and manhood.

Regis, and has invited to matins and vespers for nearly two centuries the children of those who fought so pitilessly and dared and endured so much for it.

Calhoun lay on the ground, his purple eyes focused pitilessly on Ramed.

A brilliant sun seared down upon the scorched land, a pitilessly revealing sun in the light of which nothing could hide.

System as the embodiment of soullessness, and, insofar as he had ever been known to show emotion or feeling before any undergraduate, he seemed to glory in his repute of being the most pitilessly rigid disciplinarian that Earth had ever known.

They dismounted in order to revere it more at their ease, but the bust proved, by an irony bitterer than the sick, heart-breaking, brilliant Jew could have imagined in his cruelest moment, to be that of the German Milton, the respectable poet Klopstock, whom Heine abhorred and mocked so pitilessly.

If I found that I had no other power over her, I was ready, for the sake of my Lona, to strike her pitilessly on the closed hand!

And forward two hundred seasick landsmen were being driven pitilessly to their tasks by overbearing petty officers.

So that when we make our hearts a lair for that gently seeming beast, its companion enters with it, and pitilessly lays waste what might have been an home and a shelter.

Now, although Rebecca and her husband were but at a few stones’ throw of the lodgings which the invalid Miss Crawley occupied, the old lady’s door remained as pitilessly closed to them as it had been heretofore in London.