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How to pkill by "command name"?

So I'm executing a command like:

 COMMANDNAME -PARAMETERS

But..why can't I kill it with "pkill"? I'm trying with:

 pkill -9 "COMMANDNAME -PARAMETERS"

but it doesn't kills the "COMMANDNAME -PARAMETERS" process. Why?