as in pitilessly
Related Words
Relevance
Dissimilar Words
Example Sentences
Examples are automatically compiled from online sources to
show current usage.
Read More
Opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors.
Send us feedback.
Recent Examples of unsparingly
Kahlo vibrantly and unsparingly depicted herself and events from her life, which was upended by a bus accident at 18.
—
Arkansas Online, 30 Nov. 2025
Kahlo vibrantly and unsparingly depicted herself and events from her life, which was upended by a bus accident at 18.
—Hannah Schoenbaum, Fortune, 24 Nov. 2025
Kahlo vibrantly and unsparingly depicted herself and events from her life, which was upended by a bus accident at 18.
—CBS News, 21 Nov. 2025
The episode unsparingly examines cultural assumptions about race and colorism; similarly, HIM is a scathing critique of how professional sports capitalize upon the bodies and minds of Black athletes.
—Neda Ulaby, NPR, 19 Sep. 2025
Arkansas Online, 30 Nov. 2025
Kahlo vibrantly and unsparingly depicted herself and events from her life, which was upended by a bus accident at 18.
—Hannah Schoenbaum, Fortune, 24 Nov. 2025
Kahlo vibrantly and unsparingly depicted herself and events from her life, which was upended by a bus accident at 18.
—CBS News, 21 Nov. 2025
The episode unsparingly examines cultural assumptions about race and colorism; similarly, HIM is a scathing critique of how professional sports capitalize upon the bodies and minds of Black athletes.
—Neda Ulaby, NPR, 19 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unsparingly
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
-
One year before Ingri and Edgar Parin D’Aulaire published their compendium of Greek myths, Cicellis released her second work of fiction, The Way to Colonos, which ruthlessly dramatizes the limits of individual freedom and the agony of facing one’s powerlessness.—
Rachel Vorona Cote,
The Atlantic,
5 Jan. 2026
-
Erik Satie took down the arrogance of late Romantic classical music, gently but ruthlessly taking up its vocabulary and removing all the excess, including authorship.—
Jeremy Denk,
The New York Review of Books,
25 Dec. 2025
Adverb
-
For the past few months, thousands of people have been sharing their sightings online and mercilessly poking fun.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
10 Jan. 2026
-
Back in their teenage years, Lexi’s older sister Andrea is depicted as a mean girl who ridicules Catherine mercilessly.—
Sam Reed,
Glamour,
9 Jan. 2026
Adverb
-
In the process, Joel heartlessly killed some innocent people, including medical professionals.—
EW.com,
EW.com,
26 Aug. 2025
-
There is a troubling suggestion of abuse, implying that Jack might have been ill-treated by his mom (and saved by Helen), rather than heartlessly abandoned.—
Tomris Laffly,
Variety,
14 Aug. 2025
Adverb
-
After decades of obdurately refusing to entertain the idea of bestowing its computers with touch screens, rumor has it that Apple might finally offer this capability.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
22 Sep. 2025
Adverb
-
The director plays up the humor a lot more than Westlake’s callously cynical prose, for better or worse.—
David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
30 Sep. 2025
-
But after the Sriracha-maker callously withheld payments from Underwood, the relationship deteriorated and litigation followed.—
Kate Vitasek,
Forbes.com,
14 Aug. 2025
Adverb
-
Shortly after release, Fuentes-Ponce and Escobar brutally murdered that young girl.—
Bobby Zirkin,
Baltimore Sun,
15 Jan. 2026
-
His young colleague in the District Attorney’s office, Carolyn Polhemus (Renate Reinsve), has just been brutally murdered.—
Matt Cabral,
Entertainment Weekly,
14 Jan. 2026
Adverb
-
As furious protests enter their third week and bring Iran to the precipice of change, the country’s theocratic government is trying to survive by harshly cracking down on the widening demonstrations.—
Mitchell McCluskey,
CNN Money,
12 Jan. 2026
-
In a press conference later in the day, Mayor Frey, 44, harshly condemned the actions of ICE in his city and pushed back against the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) claims that the agent involved in the fatal shooting acted in self defense.—
Rachel McRady,
PEOPLE,
8 Jan. 2026
Cite this Entry
“Unsparingly.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unsparingly. Accessed 22 Jan. 2026.
Copy CitationLove words? Need even more definitions?
Merriam-Webster unabridged
