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unpitifully

unpitifully adverb: pitilessly.

Adverb

unpitifully (comparative more unpitifully, superlative most unpitifully)

  1. (archaic) pitilessly
    • […] yee so unpittifully vex men, cast them in prison, lade them with yrons, pine them with famine […]1549, John Cheke, The True Subiect to the Rebell, or, The Hurt of Sedition, Oxford, published 1641, page 23
    • Mistress Page. Trust me, he beat him most pitifully.
      Mistress Ford. Nay, by the mass, that he did not; he beat him most unpitifully, methought.c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...

Forms of unpitifully

comparativemore unpitifully
superlativemost unpitifully

Origin of unpitifully

From unpitiful + -ly.

Questions about unpitifully

What does unpitifully mean?
Unpitifully means pitilessly.
What part of speech is unpitifully?
Unpitifully is an adverb.

Words near unpitifully in the dictionary

  1. unpithy
  2. unpitiable
  3. unpitiably
  4. unpitied
  5. unpitiful
  6. unpitifully
  7. unpitifulness
  8. unpitous
  9. unpitted
  10. unpity
  11. unpitying

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