Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Unfeeling; cruel; pitiless; inhuman; inexorable.
- Synonyms See list under
cruel .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Unsympathetic; inexorable; cruel; pitiless.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Alternative form of
hardhearted .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective devoid of feeling for others
- adjective lacking in feeling or pity or warmth
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Examples
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But Buck's new position in favor of birth control methods that kill zygotes (like IUDs or the Pill) is inconsistent and makes him look awfully hard-hearted toward the raped 14-year-old girl.
Jason Salzman: Schieffer Lets Buck Slide on Face the Nation Jason Salzman 2010
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Mary Eleanor Bowes was vilified during the divorce cases as an outrageous libertine, an ungrateful wife and a hard-hearted mother.
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Now, you're at the mercy of hard-hearted bondholders and the bankruptcy court.
Visteon stock: One more time - sell before a stock falls this far 2010
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But Buck's new position in favor of birth control methods that kill zygotes (like IUDs or the Pill) is inconsistent and makes him look awfully hard-hearted toward the raped 14-year-old girl.
Jason Salzman: Schieffer Lets Buck Slide on Face the Nation Jason Salzman 2010
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But Buck's new position in favor of birth control methods that kill zygotes (like IUDs or the Pill) is inconsistent and makes him look awfully hard-hearted toward the raped 14-year-old girl.
Jason Salzman: Schieffer Lets Buck Slide on Face the Nation Jason Salzman 2010
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Being pro-free market and anti-big government, they tend to value money too much and regulation not enough, a blend that usually culminates in a hard-hearted brew.
Edward Flattau: Compassion Edward Flattau 2010
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Being pro-free market and anti-big government, they tend to value money too much and regulation not enough, a blend that usually culminates in a hard-hearted brew.
Edward Flattau: Compassion Edward Flattau 2010
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Sharon Small as the indomitable Maggie, Robert Cavanah as her ineffectual husband, Morven Christie as their hard-hearted daughter-in-law, and Anne Downie as the grumbling old woman inhabit this cluttered world as if it is their natural terrain.
Men Should Weep - review Michael Billington 2010
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Being pro-free market and anti-big government, they tend to value money too much and regulation not enough, a blend that usually culminates in a hard-hearted brew.
Edward Flattau: Compassion Edward Flattau 2010
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But Buck's new position in favor of birth control methods that kill zygotes (like IUDs or the Pill) is inconsistent and makes him look awfully hard-hearted toward the raped 14-year-old girl.
Jason Salzman: Schieffer Lets Buck Slide on Face the Nation Jason Salzman 2010
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