Definition of hard-hearted in English:

hard-hearted

adjective ˌhɑːdˈhɑːtɪdhɑrdˈhɑrdəd

Incapable of being moved to pity or tenderness; unfeeling.
only the most hard-hearted man would not have offered comfort
Example sentencesExamples
- There is something cold-blooded and hard-hearted about so much mainstream news reporting.
- I don't care whether Shannon is Claire's sister; she is the coldest, most hard-hearted, grumpy person I have ever met.
- Next a particular type of hard-hearted indifference is growing in this concrete jungle - people who have been living next door for years are found to be complete strangers.
- It is not seen as a tradition, but as a hard-hearted, brutal sport.
- It takes a hard-hearted politician not to think that that is a good move.
- Then, suddenly, the house turned itself into a Richard Curtis film - the one in which all those hard-hearted world leaders listen to a young wee Scots lassie who tells them that, yes, they can make poverty history, now!
- Concept albums explore the despair of failed relationships, painstakingly removing the instruments of de-humanization from the hard-hearted ex-girlfriend's toolbox and examining them one by one.
- Cameron was a hard-hearted, cold individual who'd decided he didn't like Kate.
- We should not be surprised as this is a cold, calculating, hard-hearted Government, one that is wedded to expediency.
- Maybe so, but George W. Bush - and Ronald Reagan before him - made warm-hearted arguments for policies that Americans might otherwise have rejected as hard-hearted.
- But as long as the community has a clear idea of where it wants to go and doesn't just sit back and accept the money, then you have to be especially hard-hearted not to assist them.
- Lady, surely you are not so cruel and hard-hearted that you would simply kill us after all?
- People around thought he was cruel, unfeeling, hard-hearted.
- She has said: ‘I found myself thinking: why is he so hard-hearted, so dogmatic, so lacking in kindness?’
- He is often described as ‘avuncular’ - even by hard-hearted business writers - which the dictionary defines as ‘kind-hearted and cheery’.
- It's hard to believe, but there are many hard-hearted people out there who believe that, due to Terri's condition, she is ‘better off dead.’
- And isn't putting a trader out of business for the sake of appearances - even if it is only part of the reason - hard-hearted and unwise when, these days, many markets are struggling to keep the ones they've got?
- Memorable too were actor Liu Yilong as the hilarious Taoist nun Stone; and Ji Zhenhua as the imperious, crafty and hard-hearted governor Du Bao (who refuses to accept his resurrected daughter).
- As a consequence of this, I have become very hard-hearted and cold towards people.
- Peter Costello has a lot of work to do to overcome the perception that he's a cold, distant, hard-hearted, city-centric economist.
Synonyms
unfeeling, heartless, cold, hard, unsympathetic, uncaring, unloving, unconcerned, indifferent, intolerant, unmoved, unkind, uncharitable, unemotional, stony, cold-hearted, cold-blooded, lacking compassion, mean-spirited, without sentiment, stony-hearted, with a heart of stone, hard as nails
cruel, brutal, callous, savage, inhuman, merciless, pitiless

Derivatives

hard-heartedly

adverb

The latter are obviously on the fringes of the law, but it is very difficult to turn them away hard-heartedly when they land up at your doorstep with a cheerful namaste.
Example sentencesExamples
- We speak of inhuman cruelty when atrocities are so hard-heartedly cruel that we cannot conceive of ourselves as inflicting them.
- Are we hard-heartedly holding onto ourselves by demeaning or ignoring what others are thinking or feeling or trying to do?
- He reacts decisively and, at times, hard-heartedly to the necessities of the setting and the situation.
- Regrettably, all it takes to be treated so hard-heartedly is something as ordinary as being self-employed, or just not being able to prove your total earnings.

hard-heartedness

nounˌhɑːdˈhɑːtɪdnəs

In his encyclical letter in 1891, Pope Leo XIII pulled no punches: ‘It has come to pass that working [people] have been surrendered, isolated and helpless, to the hard-heartedness of employers and the greed of unchecked competition.’
Example sentencesExamples
- Later, years later, still enclosed within the inverted shroud of his own hard-heartedness, inside his locked and walled garden, the giant spies the same little boy playing alone in the garden.
- And the essay possesses in addition its share of Wildean bon mots: ‘If the English left you to bleed to death in the gutter, it would not be because of hard-heartedness, but because they were anxious not to interfere with your privacy’.
- The hard-heartedness is a bit of a shock but what's really got me gobsmacked is intensity of people's views.
- The hypocrisy and plain hard-heartedness of this administration beggars belief.

Rhymes

downhearted, good-hearted, heavy-hearted, kind-hearted, light-hearted, lion-hearted, overparted, tender-hearted, uncharted, warm-hearted, wholehearted

Definition of hard-hearted in US English:

hard-hearted

adjectivehɑrdˈhɑrdədhärdˈhärdəd

Incapable of being moved to pity or tenderness; unfeeling.
only the most hard-hearted man would not have offered comfort
Example sentencesExamples
- Lady, surely you are not so cruel and hard-hearted that you would simply kill us after all?
- He is often described as ‘avuncular’ - even by hard-hearted business writers - which the dictionary defines as ‘kind-hearted and cheery’.
- It is not seen as a tradition, but as a hard-hearted, brutal sport.
- But as long as the community has a clear idea of where it wants to go and doesn't just sit back and accept the money, then you have to be especially hard-hearted not to assist them.
- Cameron was a hard-hearted, cold individual who'd decided he didn't like Kate.
- Peter Costello has a lot of work to do to overcome the perception that he's a cold, distant, hard-hearted, city-centric economist.
- She has said: ‘I found myself thinking: why is he so hard-hearted, so dogmatic, so lacking in kindness?’
- We should not be surprised as this is a cold, calculating, hard-hearted Government, one that is wedded to expediency.
- It takes a hard-hearted politician not to think that that is a good move.
- Memorable too were actor Liu Yilong as the hilarious Taoist nun Stone; and Ji Zhenhua as the imperious, crafty and hard-hearted governor Du Bao (who refuses to accept his resurrected daughter).
- Then, suddenly, the house turned itself into a Richard Curtis film - the one in which all those hard-hearted world leaders listen to a young wee Scots lassie who tells them that, yes, they can make poverty history, now!
- As a consequence of this, I have become very hard-hearted and cold towards people.
- There is something cold-blooded and hard-hearted about so much mainstream news reporting.
- I don't care whether Shannon is Claire's sister; she is the coldest, most hard-hearted, grumpy person I have ever met.
- Next a particular type of hard-hearted indifference is growing in this concrete jungle - people who have been living next door for years are found to be complete strangers.
- It's hard to believe, but there are many hard-hearted people out there who believe that, due to Terri's condition, she is ‘better off dead.’
- Concept albums explore the despair of failed relationships, painstakingly removing the instruments of de-humanization from the hard-hearted ex-girlfriend's toolbox and examining them one by one.
- Maybe so, but George W. Bush - and Ronald Reagan before him - made warm-hearted arguments for policies that Americans might otherwise have rejected as hard-hearted.
- People around thought he was cruel, unfeeling, hard-hearted.
- And isn't putting a trader out of business for the sake of appearances - even if it is only part of the reason - hard-hearted and unwise when, these days, many markets are struggling to keep the ones they've got?
Synonyms
unfeeling, heartless, cold, hard, unsympathetic, uncaring, unloving, unconcerned, indifferent, intolerant, unmoved, unkind, uncharitable, unemotional, stony, cold-hearted, cold-blooded, lacking compassion, mean-spirited, without sentiment, stony-hearted, with a heart of stone, hard as nails

单词	hard-hearted
释义	Definition of hard-hearted in English: hard-hearted adjective ˌhɑːdˈhɑːtɪdhɑrdˈhɑrdəd Incapable of being moved to pity or tenderness; unfeeling. only the most hard-hearted man would not have offered comfort Example sentencesExamples There is something cold-blooded and hard-hearted about so much mainstream news reporting. I don't care whether Shannon is Claire's sister; she is the coldest, most hard-hearted, grumpy person I have ever met. Next a particular type of hard-hearted indifference is growing in this concrete jungle - people who have been living next door for years are found to be complete strangers. It is not seen as a tradition, but as a hard-hearted, brutal sport. It takes a hard-hearted politician not to think that that is a good move. Then, suddenly, the house turned itself into a Richard Curtis film - the one in which all those hard-hearted world leaders listen to a young wee Scots lassie who tells them that, yes, they can make poverty history, now! Concept albums explore the despair of failed relationships, painstakingly removing the instruments of de-humanization from the hard-hearted ex-girlfriend's toolbox and examining them one by one. Cameron was a hard-hearted, cold individual who'd decided he didn't like Kate. We should not be surprised as this is a cold, calculating, hard-hearted Government, one that is wedded to expediency. Maybe so, but George W. Bush - and Ronald Reagan before him - made warm-hearted arguments for policies that Americans might otherwise have rejected as hard-hearted. But as long as the community has a clear idea of where it wants to go and doesn't just sit back and accept the money, then you have to be especially hard-hearted not to assist them. Lady, surely you are not so cruel and hard-hearted that you would simply kill us after all? People around thought he was cruel, unfeeling, hard-hearted. She has said: ‘I found myself thinking: why is he so hard-hearted, so dogmatic, so lacking in kindness?’ He is often described as ‘avuncular’ - even by hard-hearted business writers - which the dictionary defines as ‘kind-hearted and cheery’. It's hard to believe, but there are many hard-hearted people out there who believe that, due to Terri's condition, she is ‘better off dead.’ And isn't putting a trader out of business for the sake of appearances - even if it is only part of the reason - hard-hearted and unwise when, these days, many markets are struggling to keep the ones they've got? Memorable too were actor Liu Yilong as the hilarious Taoist nun Stone; and Ji Zhenhua as the imperious, crafty and hard-hearted governor Du Bao (who refuses to accept his resurrected daughter). As a consequence of this, I have become very hard-hearted and cold towards people. Peter Costello has a lot of work to do to overcome the perception that he's a cold, distant, hard-hearted, city-centric economist. Synonyms unfeeling, heartless, cold, hard, unsympathetic, uncaring, unloving, unconcerned, indifferent, intolerant, unmoved, unkind, uncharitable, unemotional, stony, cold-hearted, cold-blooded, lacking compassion, mean-spirited, without sentiment, stony-hearted, with a heart of stone, hard as nails cruel, brutal, callous, savage, inhuman, merciless, pitiless Derivatives hard-heartedly adverb The latter are obviously on the fringes of the law, but it is very difficult to turn them away hard-heartedly when they land up at your doorstep with a cheerful namaste. Example sentencesExamples We speak of inhuman cruelty when atrocities are so hard-heartedly cruel that we cannot conceive of ourselves as inflicting them. Are we hard-heartedly holding onto ourselves by demeaning or ignoring what others are thinking or feeling or trying to do? He reacts decisively and, at times, hard-heartedly to the necessities of the setting and the situation. Regrettably, all it takes to be treated so hard-heartedly is something as ordinary as being self-employed, or just not being able to prove your total earnings. hard-heartedness nounˌhɑːdˈhɑːtɪdnəs In his encyclical letter in 1891, Pope Leo XIII pulled no punches: ‘It has come to pass that working [people] have been surrendered, isolated and helpless, to the hard-heartedness of employers and the greed of unchecked competition.’ Example sentencesExamples Later, years later, still enclosed within the inverted shroud of his own hard-heartedness, inside his locked and walled garden, the giant spies the same little boy playing alone in the garden. And the essay possesses in addition its share of Wildean bon mots: ‘If the English left you to bleed to death in the gutter, it would not be because of hard-heartedness, but because they were anxious not to interfere with your privacy’. The hard-heartedness is a bit of a shock but what's really got me gobsmacked is intensity of people's views. The hypocrisy and plain hard-heartedness of this administration beggars belief. Rhymes downhearted, good-hearted, heavy-hearted, kind-hearted, light-hearted, lion-hearted, overparted, tender-hearted, uncharted, warm-hearted, wholehearted Definition of hard-hearted in US English: hard-hearted adjectivehɑrdˈhɑrdədhärdˈhärdəd Incapable of being moved to pity or tenderness; unfeeling. only the most hard-hearted man would not have offered comfort Example sentencesExamples Lady, surely you are not so cruel and hard-hearted that you would simply kill us after all? He is often described as ‘avuncular’ - even by hard-hearted business writers - which the dictionary defines as ‘kind-hearted and cheery’. It is not seen as a tradition, but as a hard-hearted, brutal sport. But as long as the community has a clear idea of where it wants to go and doesn't just sit back and accept the money, then you have to be especially hard-hearted not to assist them. Cameron was a hard-hearted, cold individual who'd decided he didn't like Kate. Peter Costello has a lot of work to do to overcome the perception that he's a cold, distant, hard-hearted, city-centric economist. She has said: ‘I found myself thinking: why is he so hard-hearted, so dogmatic, so lacking in kindness?’ We should not be surprised as this is a cold, calculating, hard-hearted Government, one that is wedded to expediency. It takes a hard-hearted politician not to think that that is a good move. Memorable too were actor Liu Yilong as the hilarious Taoist nun Stone; and Ji Zhenhua as the imperious, crafty and hard-hearted governor Du Bao (who refuses to accept his resurrected daughter). Then, suddenly, the house turned itself into a Richard Curtis film - the one in which all those hard-hearted world leaders listen to a young wee Scots lassie who tells them that, yes, they can make poverty history, now! As a consequence of this, I have become very hard-hearted and cold towards people. There is something cold-blooded and hard-hearted about so much mainstream news reporting. I don't care whether Shannon is Claire's sister; she is the coldest, most hard-hearted, grumpy person I have ever met. Next a particular type of hard-hearted indifference is growing in this concrete jungle - people who have been living next door for years are found to be complete strangers. It's hard to believe, but there are many hard-hearted people out there who believe that, due to Terri's condition, she is ‘better off dead.’ Concept albums explore the despair of failed relationships, painstakingly removing the instruments of de-humanization from the hard-hearted ex-girlfriend's toolbox and examining them one by one. Maybe so, but George W. Bush - and Ronald Reagan before him - made warm-hearted arguments for policies that Americans might otherwise have rejected as hard-hearted. People around thought he was cruel, unfeeling, hard-hearted. And isn't putting a trader out of business for the sake of appearances - even if it is only part of the reason - hard-hearted and unwise when, these days, many markets are struggling to keep the ones they've got? Synonyms unfeeling, heartless, cold, hard, unsympathetic, uncaring, unloving, unconcerned, indifferent, intolerant, unmoved, unkind, uncharitable, unemotional, stony, cold-hearted, cold-blooded, lacking compassion, mean-spirited, without sentiment, stony-hearted, with a heart of stone, hard as nails
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