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unsparingly

unsparingly adverb: in an unsparing manner.

Adverb

unsparingly (comparative more unsparingly, superlative most unsparingly)

  1. In an unsparing manner.
    • But when Boshy's ill-spelt, hopeful letters came, her heart charged her unsparingly, though her carefully school-dictated replies to him were destined to contain no hint of failure.1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 205

Forms of unsparingly

comparativemore unsparingly
superlativemost unsparingly

Origin of unsparingly

From unsparing + -ly.

Questions about unsparingly

What does unsparingly mean?
Unsparingly means in an unsparing manner.
What part of speech is unsparingly?
Unsparingly is an adverb.

Words near unsparingly in the dictionary

  1. unsparable
  2. unspare
  3. unspareable
  4. unspared
  5. unsparing
  6. unsparingly
  7. unsparingness
  8. unsparked
  9. unsparkling
  10. unsparred
  11. unsparring

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