PITILESS, PITILESSLY
ADJECTIVES
► BAUCH ► BAUGH weak, poor, pitiless; without stamina; indifferent → a1560 Sc.
► CREWELL cruel, merciless, pitiless, hard-hearted → c1385 obs.
► DESPITEOUS spiteful, malevolent, malicious, cruel; passing gradually into the sense: pitiless, merciless → c1510
► DISPITEOUS cruel; spiteful; pitiless, merciless → 1803
► DOG-HEARTED cruel, unfeeling, pitiless, malicious → 1608
► HARD AS NAILS stern and unyielding; harsh; pitiless → 1862
► HEART-BOUND having the heart shut up or fast-closed to a person; pitiless, hard-hearted, mean, stingy → 1616 obs.
► ILLACHRYMABLE incapable of weeping; pitiless, unmerciful → 1623 obs.
► IMPITEOUS ruthless, pitiless → 1877
► ORELESS void of reverence, mercy or pity; merciless, cruel → a1000 obs.
► STONE-HEARTED cruel, hard-hearted, pitiless, merciless, unfeeling → 1569
► TYRANNOUS unjustly severe or cruel, pitiless → 1556
► UNBOWELLED unaffectionate, pitiless → 1592
► UNMERCIABLE unmerciful; cruel, unkind, pitiless, merciless → a1382 obs.
ADVERBS
► VENGEABLY vindictively; cruelly; pitilessly → 1412-20 arch.
NOUNS – PERSON
► ABLACH a person of untidy habits and clumsy, ungainly demeanour; a pitiless person; a useless person → 1788 Sc.
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