Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In an unsparing manner; profusely; also, mercilessly.
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- adverb In an
unsparing manner.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb in a scathing and unsparing manner
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Examples
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Meredith portrays the modern villain unsparingly, "men who are not free from the common masculine craze to scale fortresses for the sake of lowering flags."
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And Winterbottom portrays the violence in this film -- specifically the gruesome beating of the two women in Lou's life -- unsparingly, and unsettlingly.
Marshall Fine: HuffPost Review: The Killer Inside Me Marshall Fine 2010
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And while I will defend Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines unto death the finale is unsparingly powerful, Jonathan Mostow's third picture is merely a good sequel to two great installments.
Scott Mendelson: As Arnold Schwarzenegger Plans His Comeback, a Look Back at His Best Films Scott Mendelson 2011
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In The Merry Wives of Windsor, Shakespeare unsparingly ridicules old Sir John's simultaneous amorous pursuits of two married women.
Rodney Punt: The Merry Wives of Windsor -- Shakespeare's Globe Theatre Tours Santa Monica's Broad Stage Rodney Punt 2010
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But "monologist" is only one part of Daisey's description, since unlike Gray, he doesn't delve unsparingly into his own psyche.
David Finkle: First Nighter: Mike Daisey Takes a Big and Sour Bite Out of Steve Jobs's Apple David Finkle 2011
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Nor does Chardin's painting prepare us, as viewers, for the later and more radical ensembles of quotidian culinary objects, caught close up and unsparingly, for which he became well known.
A Monumental Moment Mary Tompkins Lewis 2011
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Discrimination was unsparingly used to try to keep African Americans in their place.
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A great TV comedy about the making of a terrible TV comedy, Episodes is from Friends/The Class writers David Crane and Jeffrey Klarik, who take an unsparingly biting approach to Hollywood satire.
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However complex and unfathomable the causes of David's illness were, my father saw himself and his behaviour unsparingly, as a contributory factor.
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Shorn of the allegory and sentiment common to so much commemorative art, it vividly and unsparingly depicts what Kathryn Allamong Jacob calls, in "Testament to Union: Civil War Monuments in Washington, D.C.," "the harsh face of war in the awful beauty of richly detailed men and horses rushing to battle."
A Great Bronze Tarnished by Neglect Michael F. Bishop 2011
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