Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Hard-hearted; cruel.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Hard-hearted.
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Examples
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The 28-year-old is sweet when she needs to be and flint-hearted when threatened.
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A pathological need for approval is aggravated by an endless string of auditions hosted by fish-eyed, flint-hearted Cowells: rejection, poverty and crying in the shower while scrubbing yourself with Poundland bleach are daily realities.
Danny Dyer's revealed he was pals with Pinter. An odd couple, but look at these James Donaghy 2010
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The 28-year-old is sweet when she needs to be and flint-hearted when threatened.
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Only flint-hearted, bloodless creeps could think otherwise.
Landrieu the latest senator to face TV pressure over public option 2009
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Richard Greenberg, one of my least favorite contemporary playwrights, has rewritten O'Hara's book from curtain to curtain, replacing his sharp-eared dialogue with lame, campy punch lines and smoothing out the rough edges of the plot in a way that is alien to the flint-hearted spirit of the real "Pal Joey."
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Neither of the men reminded her of her flint-hearted Howard relations who had all but disowned her when she was disgraced, and now were swarming around her emerging court claiming her as their own once more.
The Virgin's Lover Philippa Gregory 1996
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Neither of the men reminded her of her flint-hearted Howard relations who had all but disowned her when she was disgraced, and now were swarming around her emerging court claiming her as their own once more.
The Virgin's Lover Philippa Gregory 1996
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The boss menhir wanted a couple of his flint-hearted buddies there to keep an ear on us.
The Silver Spike Cook, Glen 1989
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The flint-hearted fellow bit so deeply into the damsel's lip that the blood trickled from the wound.
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Meanwhile, the landed estates of these absentee lords were in charge of flint-hearted agents, whose sole mission was to squeeze money from the peasants, to make them pay well for mill, bridge, and oven, to press to the uttermost every claim which might give the absent master a larger revenue.
A Political and Social History of Modern Europe V.1. Carlton J. H. Hayes 1923
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