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.

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  • 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

  • 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

  • Mary Eleanor Bowes was vilified during the divorce cases as an outrageous libertine, an ungrateful wife and a hard-hearted mother.

    Wedlock by Wendy Moore: Questions 2009

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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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