Sin piedad

Sin piedad
 

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) :thinking:

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

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 :D)

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

Sorry, I forgot that -ly ending. :o

OK, thanks everybody. :)

Is ruth an obsolete word, but ruthlessly is used?

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.

Read my post above :)

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

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

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

:muybien:
And that's a feck!!:lol:

Fectually :wicked: speaking... yes! :D

Is daunt really unused? I'm pretty sure that it's still used in the past tense, at least.

Yes - he was daunted by the task - sounds normal to me. I was scraping the barrel looking for examples. :thinking:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7BRraVMZzc

This is an example of how without pity can be used in English. I trust it won't be very daunting to understand.