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coldheartedness

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  • noun Alternative spelling of cold-heartedness.

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Examples

  • Like others, Candelaria said he thought McVeigh's behavior during the trial was "coldheartedness, not shedding a tear."

    The Verdict: Death 2008

  • I think of Victoria and I think prettiness, not bigotry or coldheartedness.

    A ride in Autumn: no brakes and posing with things you stomp on Elizabeth McClung 2007

  • Even more troubling to him was the imprimatur the U.S. military accorded this coldheartedness.

    Tour of Duty 2003

  • Even more troubling to him was the imprimatur the U.S. military accorded this coldheartedness.

    Tour of Duty 2003

  • And here I paused, letting the words sink in, knowing that the INS was widely loathed throughout the immigrant communities, but especially among Latinos for its brutality and coldheartedness in sending them back.

    Last Lullaby Denise Hamilton 2004

  • And here I paused, letting the words sink in, knowing that the INS was widely loathed throughout the immigrant communities, but especially among Latinos for its brutality and coldheartedness in sending them back.

    Last Lullaby Denise Hamilton 2004

  • All I could think about was that young woman and how my coldheartedness had caused her to take her own life.

    A Red Death Walter Mosley 2002

  • All I could think about was that young woman and how my coldheartedness had caused her to take her own life.

    A Red Death Walter Mosley 2002

  • All I could think about was that young woman and how my coldheartedness had caused her to take her own life.

    A Red Death Walter Mosley 2002

  • Prof. WEST: It's deeply hedonistic, self-indulgent, pleasure, instant gratification, violence -- unbelievable in terms of -- not just physical violence, but the psychic violence that creates a coldheartedness and a mean-spiritedness toward one another, and we see this more and more among young people.

    The Cornel West Reader 2000

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