Heartless
['hɑːtlɪs] or ['hɑrtləs]
Definition
(a.) Without a heart.
(a.) Destitute of courage; spiritless; despodent.
(a.) Destitute of feeling or affection; unsympathetic; cruel.
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Examples
- I cannot conceive how I can be guilty of such heartless unfeeling behaviour! Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Nobody ever did or can impose upon me by a heartless love-letter. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- She didn't want Laurie to think her a heartless, worldly creature. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Why should I fret about this senseless, heartless being? Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- But between ourselves, Windibank, it was as cruel and selfish and heartless a trick in a petty way as ever came before me. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Unfeeling, heartless creator! Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- You mean, miserable, heartless coward! Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- If you wish to inflict a heartless and malignant punishment upon a young person, pledge him to keep a journal a year. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Can I,' said Mr. Jingle, fixing his eyes on the aunt's face--'can I see--lovely creature--sacrificed at the shrine--heartless avarice! Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Born to be hanged, more like, said Maurice viciously, hardly able to conceal his dislike of this heartless, cowardly, beautiful animal before him. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- How can you all encourage this cold-blooded heartless creature? Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- It was a relief to my mind to believe him heartless and unworthy of my affection. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Crispin, I am afraid a semi-barbaric life is making me heartless. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- How thoroughly heartless that person must be! Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- The mind flags beneath the weight of thought, and droops in the heartless intercourse of those whose sole aim is amusement. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Ephraim is an heartless dove--Issachar an over-laboured drudge, which stoops between two burdens. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- To be a wicked woman--a heartless mother, a false wife? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Is it not absurd to suppose that a woman, who was not quite a fool, could believe in such ridiculous, heartless nonsense? Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- There was the dreadful end of that long life of degraded ability and heartless crime! Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- I am not heartless enough to resign a woman who has just shown herself to be the noblest of her sex. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- This is heartless of you, Gilmore--very heartless, he said. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- She was hard enough and heartless enough to set the opinions of all her neighbours at flat defiance. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- You are very cold and heartless, which is what, from the expression of your eyes, I had never suspected, remarked Leinster. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Not to go on talking in this heartless way, I seriously believe that Mrs. Hale--that lady in Crampton, you know--hasn't many weeks to live. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- It seems horribly heartless of us talking and laughing like we did last night, when so many human beings have lost their lives. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- I had learnt her whole character, which was without mystery or disguise: she was coquettish but not heartless; exacting, but not worthlessly selfish. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- She mortally hated work, and loved what she called pleasurebeing an insipid, heartless, brainless dissipation of time. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Thus then, though many of you are angry with me, you all agree in being disgusted with the heartless selfishness of the Duke of Beaufort. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- He cursed Osborne and his family as heartless, wicked, and ungrateful. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
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