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English
Etymology
From pitiless + -ly.
Adverb
pitilessly (comparative more pitilessly, superlative most pitilessly)
- In a pitiless manner.
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.
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