unsparingly

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un·spar·ing

(ŭn-spâr′ĭng)

adj.

1. Unmerciful; severe: an unsparing superior officer; unsparing criticism.

2. Generous or unstinting: unsparing in his efforts to find a solution.

un·spar′ing·ly adv.

un·spar′ing·ness n.

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Adv.

unsparingly - in a scathing and unsparing manner; "she criticized him scathingly"

scathingly

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unsparingly

[ʌnˈspɛərɪŋlɪ] ADV (= generously) → generosamente, pródigamente; (= untiringly) → incansablemente

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

unsparingly

adv

(= generously) → großzügig, verschwenderisch; to work unsparingly for something → unermüdlich für etw arbeiten; he gave unsparingly of his time → er opferte unendlich viel Zeit

(= mercilessly) criticize → schonungslos

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

unsparingly

[ʌnˈspɛərɪŋlɪ] adv (generously) → generosamente; (unmercifully) → spietatamente

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

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They lecture our shortcomings unsparingly, and every night they call us together and read to us chapters from the Testament that are full of gentleness, of charity, and of tender mercy; and then all the next day they stick to their saddles clear up to the summits of these rugged mountains, and clear down again.

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Without much extravagance of eulogy, the spectacle might even be termed splendid; for, according to the fashion of the times, the ladies shone in rich silks and satins, outspread over wide-projecting hoops; and the gentlemen glittered in gold embroidery, laid unsparingly upon the purple, or scarlet, or sky-blue velvet, which was the material of their coats and waistcoats.

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Short and easy as her tasks were, if done at all, they were slurred over, at any time and in any way; but generally at the least convenient times, and in the way least beneficial to herself, and least satisfactory to me: the short half-hour of practising was horribly strummed through; she, meantime, unsparingly abusing me, either for interrupting her with corrections, or for not rectifying her mistakes before they were made, or something equally unreasonable.

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He had the further mortification of seeing the very Shadwell whom he had so unsparingly ridiculed replace him as poet laureate.

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He did not attempt to offer conventional consolation, and put the gravity of my responsibilities unsparingly before me, but I had no need of a spur.

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He lived in a world of obstinate and incessant change, tand in parts where its operations were unsparingly conspicuous.

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For proof, she harangued the entire household unsparingly till food and drink were brought; and in the evening - the smoke-scented evening, copper-dun and turquoise across the fields - it pleased her to order her palanquin to be set down in the untidy forecourt by smoky torchlight; and there, behind not too closely drawn curtains, she gossiped.

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"Although the monies expended upon you in your minority, and the bills which you have drawn upon him so unsparingly of late years, far exceed in amount the sum to which you are entitled in your own right (being the third part of the fortune of your mother, the late Mrs.

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6), A Sense of Siege unsparingly reveals the Huntingtonian notion of the "West versus the rest" for precisely the sort of special pleading that it is.

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French writer of novels and plays who unsparingly satirized the clergy and social conditions of his time and was one of the 10 original members of the Academie Goncourt, founded in 1903.

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For opportunity creation, free time, labor, and money are spent unsparingly. Success is not measured by the yardstick of cost accounting, because the individual finds a higher value in the achievement of opportunity creation.

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But praise heaped as unsparingly as this blots out nuance and chokes off interest.