cruel-hearted
See also: cruelhearted
English
Adjective
cruel-hearted (comparative more cruel-hearted, superlative most cruel-hearted)
- Cruel; lacking kindness and compassion.
- 1590, William Shakespeare, The Two Gentlemen of Verona:
- I think Crab, my dog, be the sourest-natured dog that lives: my mother weeping, my father wailing, my sister crying, our maid howling, our cat wringing her hands, and all our house in a great perplexity, yet did not this cruel-hearted cur shed one tear: he is a stone, a very pebble stone, and has no more pity in him than a dog...
- 1902, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles:
- Somewhere in the heart of the great Grimpen Mire, down in the foul slime of the huge morass which had sucked him in, this cold and cruel-hearted man is forever buried.
- 1992, Julie Garwood, The Secret, →ISBN, page 132:
- She's cruel-hearted, Judith. Every chance she gets, she makes horrid remarks about the pain I'm going to have to endure.
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Derived terms
- cruel-heartedly
- cruel-heartedness