unpitifully

comparative more unpitifully · superlative most unpitifully

1. archaicpitilessly

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

   1549, John Cheke, The True Subiect to the Rebell, or, The Hurt of Sedition, Oxford, published 1641, page 23

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   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.

   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]