单词 | unpitiably |
释义 | unpitiablyadv. Not pitiably; in a manner which evokes or deserves no pity. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > compassion > pitilessness > [adverb] > in manner not exciting pity unpitiably1768 1768 Public Advertiser 11 June 1/4 He found himself pinch'd (very deservedly, and of all People most unpitiably) by Instruments. 1771 R. Roberts tr. C. F. X. Millot Elements Hist. France III. 151 25 villages were unpitiably reduced to ashes. 1822 W. Scott in Novels of Le Sage, & Charles Johnstone Pref. p. xxi Carambola is employed in reading to slumber the Member of the Council.., who unpitiably awakens at every instant when his reader stops. 1885 R. L. Stevenson Prince Otto ii. xiv. 225 She now beheld herself unpitiably martyred. 1913 Jrnl. Amer. Geogr. Soc. 45 62 He would have perished unpitiably without the efforts of fifteen men who ran to his assistance. 2007 N. Saul Gypsies & Orientalism in German Lit. ii. 38 Elisabeth perishes abjectly if unpitiably by the roadside. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adv.1768 |
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