caddishly

adverb

as in kindlessly

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for caddishly
  1. mercilessly
  2. ruthlessly
  3. cruelly
  4. balefully
  5. heartlessly
  6. bitterly
  7. pitilessly
  8. callously
Adverb
  • This is no small feat in a city where working class locals are priced out mercilessly to make way for the ultra-wealthy here to work on their winter tans.
    — Amanda Rosa, Miami Herald, 2 Sep. 2026
  • Despite her clear influence, Rico was mercilessly heckled by Carti fans during her performance at the Portland tour stop.
    — Mehan Jayasuriya, Pitchfork, 24 July 2026
Definition of mercilessly
Adverb
  • The first at Lord's was only 110 on Friday, and two days later England's all-seam attack was ruthlessly picking apart the top order again.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 30 Aug. 2026
  • That’s the conclusion Sunderland ruthlessly came to last summer.
    — Jordan Campbell, New York Times, 23 Aug. 2026
Definition of ruthlessly
Adverb
  • Hansen can be cruelly mocking towards his oft-flustered but extremely professional producer Andie Bender (an astonishingly good Merritt Wever).
    — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 5 Sep. 2026
  • Then came a dip in form and, cruelly, a foot injury in January that ended his season.
    — Cerys Jones, New York Times, 5 Sep. 2026
Definition of cruelly
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  • His family stared balefully at him, waiting for some alchemy to be performed by his hand, like those trips when he was somehow expected to navigate them through an unknown city.
    — Emma Cline, New Yorker, 9 Aug. 2026
  • 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
Definition of balefully
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
Definition of heartlessly
Adverb
  • Although the Supreme Court’s power to overrule Congress is now broadly accepted, it was bitterly contested for more than a century.
    — Daniel Immerwahr, New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2026
  • After six months of war, the deadlock has left the Islamic Republic bitterly divided, while its ultimate arbiter, Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei, remains in hiding.
    — Mostafa Salem, CNN Money, 30 Aug. 2026
Definition of bitterly
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
Definition of pitilessly
Adverb
  • The biggest fear for people who want to see books preserved through the training process is that AI firms will callously pulp rare books that can never be replaced.
    — Ashley Belanger, ArsTechnica, 12 Aug. 2026
  • Conventional wisdom callously had it that audiences might never return, especially after the pandemic in 2020 was followed in short order in 2023 by two prolonged industrywide strikes.
    — Adam Aron, Variety, 29 July 2026
Definition of callously
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