Sin piedad

[irmamar]

Quiero decir, más o menos:

Pero las revueltas se aplastaron sin piedad.

But the revolts were merciless suppressed.

Is merciless appropriate here? (and all the sentence, of course)

[poli]

Mercilessly works, but so does repressed without pity, and remorselessly.

[JPablo]

Also pitilessly, and ruthlessly... even relentlessly...

[Perikles]

Originally Posted by JPablo

Also pitilessly, and ruthlessly... even relentlessly...

The most usual one for a revolt would be ruthlessly. Whichever adverb is used, you might guess that it ends in -ly (it does usually )

This, by the way, means with a complete lack of ruth, (meaning compassion), another obsolete English word.

[irmamar]

Sorry, I forgot that -ly ending.

OK, thanks everybody.

Is ruth an obsolete word, but ruthlessly is used?

[poli]

Ruth is a woman's name but ruthless means without remorse. I don't know why.

Uncouth means socially unacceptable, or strange. Couth is not a word in English. Sometimes English is illogical.

[Perikles]

Originally Posted by poli

Ruth is a woman's name but ruthless means without remorse. I don't know why..

Read my post above

Originally Posted by poli

Uncouth means socially unacceptable, or strange. Couth is not a word in English. Sometimes English is illogical.

Couth is a word in my dictionary. There are quite a few derivative words in English where the original word has fallen out of use, but which are still listed in the OED. I can't think of many off the top of my head, but for example

feckless
listless
ruthless
uncouth
dauntless

[poli]

Thanks for the info Perikles. Feck was a word in English? I sounds like something you'd hear east of France.

[Perikles]

Originally Posted by poli

Feck was a word in English?

Sure is, or was. It is aphetic for effeck, a variant of effect, efficacy, value, vigour, energy. Hence feckful and feckless.

[poli]

And that's a feck!!