unpitifully

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

unpitiful +‎ -ly

Adverb[edit]

unpitifully (comparative more unpitifully, superlative most unpitifully)

  1. (archaic) pitilessly
    • 1549, John Cheke, The True Subiect to the Rebell, or, The Hurt of Sedition‎[1], Oxford, published 1641, page 23:
      […] yee so unpittifully vex men, cast them in prison, lade them with yrons, pine them with famine […]
    • 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] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene ii]:
      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.
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