Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Incapable of deep or strong feeling or affection.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Incapable of deep feeling.
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Examples
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As well as reminding the world that she's a singer, Jessica Simpson also showed that she wasn't the vacuous, shallow-hearted, out-of-touch moron that some would have you believe.
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He had grown as dry and hard and empty as a quill, as such silly shallow-hearted fellows deserve to grow.
The Water Babies 2007
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For if a country beauty in clumsy shoes be only shallow-hearted enough, it is astonishing how closely her mental processes may resemble those of
Adam Bede 2004
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He had grown as dry and hard and empty as a quill, as such silly, shallow-hearted fellows deserve to grow.
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 2 Charles Herbert Sylvester
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Then, again, was the _Amy_ of _Locksley Hall_ quite as shallow-hearted and so forth as the angry rhymester declares?
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, October 3, 1891 Various
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Anna, the insignificant Ottavio, the light-headed and shallow-hearted
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But his insistence on this great theme has naturally scared away the empty-headed and the shallow-hearted, and many also of the careless clever.
My Contemporaries In Fiction David Christie Murray
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"Mercy is superior to justice, the shallow-hearted to the contrary notwithstanding."
The Fountainhead Rand, Ayn 1943
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Oh, a trifling, shallow-hearted jilt, but a brave creature!
Gallantry Dizain des Fetes Galantes James Branch Cabell 1918
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King Richard to be swayed by you, until against his will you daily guide this shallow-hearted fool to some commendable action.
Chivalry James Branch Cabell 1918
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