relieve
verb (used with object)
to ease or alleviate (pain, distress, anxiety, need, etc.).
unrelievedly
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a word derived from
relieve.
Example Sentences
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There are 29 of them, and they are unrelievedly and oppressively gloomy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026
Davis, he added, “offers a dark, almost unrelievedly oppressive picture of life in a tough, hardhearted city.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 25, 2022
On the other hand, Willy himself is often so unrelievedly monstrous that you sometimes can’t see past it to the monstrosity of American business that Miller means to indict.
From New York Times ● Oct. 9, 2022
Always a realist, never a romantic, Degas was demonstrating how unrelievedly exhausting it was to be a young dancer in 19th-century Paris.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 3, 2019
It was dreary, it was unrelievedly ugly; above all, it looked like grim failure.
From Land of the Burnt Thigh by Stephen J. Voorhies
