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- adjective Alternative spelling of
false-hearted .
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Examples
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"falsehearted," as opposed to the others, who are emphatically styled
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You will find there contempt for a love so poor that it feared poverty; pity for a man who dared not face the world and conquer it, as a girl had done before him, and gratitude that I have found my 'master' in a truehearted boy, not a falsehearted man.
Pauline's Passion and Punishment Louisa May Alcott 1860
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When I explained again, then, she, in a friendly but deceitful and falsehearted manner kept on offering me sexy beverages of delightful colours and even better taste * hip*
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Resolved, That we believe the time is not far distant, when the Queen City of the West, shall be redeemed from the hateful influence of the slaveholder; redeemed from that cruel prejudice of caste which, hangs like a mill-stone around the neck of our people; redeemed from all those unequal laws, which have a tendency to make the strong stronger and the weak weaker; redeemed from their falsehearted friends, whose sarcastic smile is more to be feared than the frowns of an open enemy.
Twenty-Two Years a Slave, and Forty Years a Freeman Steward, Austin, 1794-1860 1856
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a mill-stone around the neck of our people; redeemed from all those unequal laws, which have a tendency to make the strong stronger and the weak weaker; redeemed from their falsehearted friends, whose sarcastic smile is more to be feared than the frowns of an open enemy.
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And you, you falsehearted harlot-you're the worst of them all! "
Space Viking Piper, H. Beam 1963
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But This Chicken Proved Falsehearted) in a frail, bright, mournful voice, contrasting nicely with his occasionally loopy lyrical concerns (he plays the one about the falsehearted chicken), beyond-loopy stage banter (we'll get to it), and taste for the odd R. Kelly cover.
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