Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Devoid of kindness or sympathy; hardhearted.
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- adjective
Cruel ,compassionless ,discompassionate , as if having aheart made ofstone .
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- adjective devoid of feeling for others
Etymologies
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Examples
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It was not only a pleasure, but a duty to answer them, for the poor fellow was forlorn, and needed petting, since Jo persisted in being stonyhearted.
Little Women 1921
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There are few indeed, so stonyhearted as to betray a man once loved in such a case; and Mary Goddard in her wildest fear never dreamed of giving up the fugitive.
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It was not only a pleasure, but a duty to answer them, for the poor fellow was forlorn, and needed petting, since Jo persisted in being stonyhearted.
Little Women Louisa May Alcott 1860
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"Of these stones," perhaps, but less easily of the stonyhearted monks, who with pitiless smiles watched the abbot's sorrow, which should soon bring him to his ruin.
Froude's Essays in Literature and History With Introduction by Hilaire Belloc James Anthony Froude 1856
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Still Mr Rubb sat in silence, and she thought that he must be stonyhearted.
Miss Mackenzie Anthony Trollope 1848
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Above all, it has that emotional wallop to make even the stonyhearted cry and laugh out loud with its little big people.
NAACHGAANA 2009
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McDormand's character has a few moments reminiscent of her "Fargo" sheriff, but finally she's just desperate and pathetic, while Swinton is exquisitely stonyhearted.
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