caddishly

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for caddishly
Adverb
  • The second Test was all over rapidly and mercilessly on Sunday when Matt Henry took the remaining five wickets within the first hour to finish with 11 in the match.
    Paul Newman, New York Times, 21 June 2026
  • Some commentators’ dark horses for the tournament, Norway qualified from Europe with a perfect record, pillaging goals at will, while mercilessly dispatching opponents.
    Jonathan Thompson, Travel + Leisure, 10 June 2026
Adverb
  • Leaders must immediately audit burn rate, freeze nonessential spend, tighten inventory cycles and reforecast ruthlessly.
    Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 26 June 2026
  • In Britain, all the large predators had long since been exterminated and the smaller ones (like foxes) were ruthlessly persecuted.
    Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 22 June 2026
Adverb
  • But the global fame that Back to Black brought the London songstress only seemed to exacerbate her issues with addiction, and broadcast them to the world via a cruelly unsympathetic tabloid media ecosystem.
    Al Shipley, SPIN, 29 June 2026
  • Colombia peppered him with shots from all parts of the attacking third, as seen below, and had three goals disallowed before Daniel Munoz’s deflected strike — cruelly — finally beat Mpasi on 76 minutes.
    Anantaajith Raghuraman, New York Times, 24 June 2026
Adverb
  • Among the innards and the great slab of white tail fat was the sheep's head, balefully gazing up at me.
    Stanley Stewart, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Mar. 2024
Adverb
  • Victim Nyron Shaw’s father said the driver who mowed his son down last year in Ocean Hill a day before Independence Day should face the maximum penalty for allegedly driving twice the speed limit and heartlessly taking off, leaving his son to die.
    Nicholas Williams, New York Daily News, 8 Apr. 2026
  • In the process, Joel heartlessly killed some innocent people, including medical professionals.
    EW.com, EW.com, 26 Aug. 2025
Adverb
  • With a goalkeeping howler and a red card, Marcelo Bielsa’s side self-imploded at the end of a bitterly disappointing tournament.
    Tim Spiers, New York Times, 30 June 2026
  • And the organization’s internal splinter groups, the Soviet-leaning Weatherman Underground and the Maoist-leaning Progressive Labor faction fought each other bitterly.
    Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Time, 28 June 2026
Adverb
  • The first hour, set at a resort that’s like a singles cruise through the Twilight Zone (or Bachelor in Paradise beamed in from a brutal alternate universe), contains some of the most pitilessly funny scenes of the filmmaker’s career.
    A.A. Dowd, Vulture, 24 Oct. 2025
Adverb
  • The department was known to operate callously, firing people by email or locking them out of buildings.
    Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 10 June 2026
  • Altman accused of making ChatGPT unsafe The lawsuit joins prior suits accusing Altman of callously deploying AI systems without regard for user safety.
    Ashley Belanger, ArsTechnica, 1 June 2026
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“Caddishly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/caddishly. Accessed 1 Jul. 2026.

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