Meaning of ruthfully | Babel Free

Definitions

1. In a manner that is ruthful:
2. Sorrowfully, ruefully.
3. In a manner that causes pity; piteously.
4. Compassionately; mercifully.

Examples

“cæsar [ruthfully] Rufio, Rufio: my men at the barricade are between the sea party and the shore party. I have murdered them.”

“They tantalize, particularly when the speaker or the central character of the lyric is a prematurely married girl, ruthfully yearning to return to her parental home, and there, reunite with her childhood lover.”

“No change, he reflected ruthfully a moment later, was to be got from Empson that way.”

“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 truth seems drab and dull by comparison.”

“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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