pitilessly

English

Etymology

pitiless +‎ -ly

Adverb

pitilessly (comparative more pitilessly, superlative most pitilessly)

In a pitiless manner.
- 1895 October 1, Stephen Crane, chapter 10, in The Red Badge of Courage, 1st US edition, New York: D. Appleton and Company, page 106:
  The simple questions of the tattered man had been knife thrusts to him. They asserted a society that probes pitilessly at secrets until all is apparent.

Translations

in a pitiless manner

Italian: spietatamente (it), crudelmente (it), impietosamente (it)

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