unmercifully
English edit
Etymology edit
unmerciful + -ly
Adverb edit
unmercifully (comparative more unmercifully, superlative most unmercifully)
- In an unmerciful manner.
- 1835, Theodore Hook, Gilbert Gurney:
- They unmercifully bundled me and my gallant second into our own hackney coach.
- 1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 99:
- These men lashed themselves and each other unmercifully with knotted leather scourges until the blood ran, two or three times daily.