ruthfully

adv

1. In a manner that is ruthful:

   “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.”

2. In a manner that is ruthful:

   “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.”

3. In a manner that is ruthful:

   “Lee's wait was ruthfully short, although he might have traded the first news that reached him for a return to uncertainty.”