lack-pity

English

Etymology

lack +‎ pity

Adjective

lack-pity (comparative more lack-pity, superlative most lack-pity)

1. merciless; pitiless
   • 1881, Christina Rossetti, “An Old-World Thicket”, in A Pageant and Other Poems‎^[1], page 122:

     Each sore defeat of my defeated life / Faced and outfaced me in that bitter hour; / And turned to yearning palsy all my power, / And all my peace to strife, / Self stabbing self with keen lack-pity knife.