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hardhearted Definition

hard·hearted (härd′härt′id)

adjective

unfeeling; pitiless; cruel

hardhearted Related Forms
hard′·heart′ed·ly adverb hard′·heart′ed·ness noun
hardhearted Synonyms

hardhearted

modif.

brutish, unfeeling, heartless; see cruel 1.

hardhearted Quotes

Certainly wife and children are a kind of discipline of humanity; and single men, though they be many times more charitable, because their means are less exhaust, yet†they are more cruel and hardhearted (good to make severe inquisitors), becausetheir tenderness isnot so oft called upon.

—Bacon, Francis,Viscount St Albans

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