unmercifully

English

Etymology

From unmerciful +‎ -ly.

Adverb

unmercifully (comparative more unmercifully, superlative most unmercifully)

1. 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.