单词 | dark-hearted |
释义 | dark-heartedadj. 1. a. Lacking moral or spiritual goodness; evil, wicked. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > wickedness > [adjective] litherc893 unledeeOE evil971 missOE murkOE unrighteousOE unseelyOE un-i-seliOE unselec1050 wickc1175 foul-itowenc1225 unwrast?c1225 un-i-felec1275 wickedc1275 wrakefula1350 felonousc1374 unquertc1390 unperfect1395 felona1400 wanc1440 meschant?c1450 sinnyc1475 unselc1480 poison?1527 pernicious?1533 scelerous1534 viperous?1548 improbate1596 scelestious1609 scelestic1628 spider-like1655 dark-hearted1656 demonic1796 nineteda1798 sinful1863 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. ΚΠ 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. ΚΠ 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. ΚΠ 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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