ruthfully

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ruthfully

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From Middle English rewthfully, equivalent to ruthful + -ly.

adverb more ruthfully · most ruthfully

Sorrowfully, ruefully. cæsar [ruthfully] Rufio, Rufio: my men at the barricade are between the sea party and the shore party. I have murdered them.
In a manner that causes pity; piteously. 1997, Neil W. Hamilton (quoting Owen Lattimore), Zealotry and Academic Freedom, page 313, This commonplace observation becomes very poignant when you are the man accused, and a man like McCarthy ruthfully exploits his advantage by making the accusations so sensational that the revelation of the trut
Compassionately; mercifully. Lee's wait was ruthfully short, although he might have traded the first news that reached him for a return to uncertainty.

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@misc{ruthfully_2026,
  title = {ruthfully},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/ruthfully},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}