RUTHLESSLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ruthlessly mean? 

• RUTHLESSLY (adverb)
  The adverb RUTHLESSLY has 1 sense:

1. in a ruthless manner

  Familiarity information: RUTHLESSLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RUTHLESSLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a ruthless manner

Context example:

the government has been urged to take immediate action to deal ruthlessly with the strikers

Pertainym:

ruthless (without mercy or pity)

 Context examples 

“You know I never approved of it,” pursued Utterson, ruthlessly disregarding the fresh topic.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

So, with Spartan firmness, the young authoress laid her first-born on her table, and chopped it up as ruthlessly as any ogre.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

I was sure St. John Rivers—pure-lived, conscientious, zealous as he was—had not yet found that peace of God which passeth all understanding: he had no more found it, I thought, than had I with my concealed and racking regrets for my broken idol and lost elysium—regrets to which I have latterly avoided referring, but which possessed me and tyrannised over me ruthlessly.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)