unpitifully

unpitifully

English

Etymology

unpitiful +‎ -ly

Adverb

unpitifully (comparative more unpitifully, superlative most unpitifully)

1. (archaic) pitilessly
   • 1549, John Cheke, The True Subiect to the Rebell, or, The Hurt of Sedition, Oxford, 1641, p. 23,

     […] yee so unpittifully vex men, cast them in prison, lade them with yrons, pine them with famine […]

   • c. 1597, William Shakespeare, “The Merry VViues of VVindsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [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.