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单词 dark-hearted
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dark-heartedadj.

Brit. /ˌdɑːkˈhɑːtᵻd/, U.S. /ˌdɑrkˈhɑrdəd/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: dark adj., hearted adj.
Etymology: < dark adj. + hearted adj.
1.
a. Lacking moral or spiritual goodness; evil, wicked.
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society > morality > moral evil > wickedness > [adjective]
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1656 R. Carpenter Last & Highest Appeal xii. 44 O thou Searcher of Searchers, Search these dark-hearted, and fearless, though trembling Lyars with candles.
?1778 J. Beatson Serm. Duty & Interest of Men 25 The superstitious, dark-hearted, priest-ridden, James II.
1856 Kansas Herald of Freedom (Lawrence) 3 May 1/7 A heartless, soulless, dark-hearted murder!
1994 Sci Fi Entertainment Aug. 28/1 He was a dark-hearted hero whose own ideas about justice were far from socially responsible (and definitely not politically correct).
2020 Express Online (Nexis) 23 Nov. She's protecting her children but she's also dark hearted and ruthless.
b. Esp. of a creative work: bleak; pessimistic.
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1991 Times 6 July (Arts section) 21/2 This is a dark-hearted, troubled and troubling vision of Mozart's dramma giocoso.
2001 Wire June 85/2 Darkhearted acoustic ballads.
2013 Radio Times 9 Nov. (South/West ed.) 47/2 A dark-hearted tale of a lawyer lost in the underworld.
2. Having a central part which is dark in colour.
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1870 D. G. Rossetti Let. 15 Mar. (1965) II. 816 Where..the dark-hearted golden sunflowers shine?
1930 Protein Content of Wheat: Hearings before Comm. on Agric. (U.S House of Representatives, 71st Congr., 2nd Sess.) 41 The purest possible seed he could get of the dark-hearted variety.
2016 House Beautiful (Nexis) 1 Sept. (Features section) 110 I'm always captured by dark-hearted flowers, like cantaloupe-colored Brugmansia and inky-black Scabiosa.

Derivatives

ˈdark-heartedness n. the quality of being evil or wicked.
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1838 R. A. Davenport Hist. Bastille (new ed.) vii. 247 He acted with the cunning of a lunatic, and the dark-heartedness of a fiend.
2016 @timjkeegan 27 May in twitter.com (accessed 12 Apr. 2021) At what level of incompetence & dark heartedness do senior bureaucrats & pollies go to jail?
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2021).
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