heartless

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She sat angry and miserable; angry with Harkness, not because he had called her heartless--she did not care in the slightest for his praise or blame--but because he had been the bearer of ill tidings; and because he had in some way produced in her the physical and mental distress of angry passion, a distress felt more when passion is subsiding.

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  1. adjective Devoid of compassion or feeling; pitiless.
  2. adjective Archaic Devoid of courage or enthusiasm; spiritless.

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  • Sports writers in the old days had called her heartless, and fans had embraced the idea, seeing her as a ruthless athlete savagely beating the competition. —  Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, March 2002
  • I am not compltely heartless, and feel very badly for anyone that has to go through this type of violence growing up, but it does not give you the right to act out in this sort of way! —  The Albert Lea Tribune
  • The staff at Staples Center were heartless, as were the people on the Ticketmaster phone line.
  • The point of the Punisher is, he's relentless, heartless, and views the world in pure black and white, good and evil and that's it. —  EclipseMagazine
  • While neither parent is completely heartless, they mistrust Jasira and, among other unreasonable demands, forbid her from dating black classmates. —  Movie City News
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  1. from Middle English herteles (= Dutch harteloos = Middle High German herzelōs, German herzlos = Danish hjertelös = Swedish hjertlös), from herte, heart, + -les, -less.
 

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