cruelhearted

See also: cruel-hearted

English

Adjective

cruelhearted (comparative more cruelhearted, superlative most cruelhearted)

  1. Alternative form of cruel-hearted
    • 2002, Willie Morris & ‎Jack Bales, Shifting Interludes: Selected Essays, →ISBN, page 188:
      Frequently have I been tempted to compose for him epistles of nearly Herzogian sweep, have even seriously contemplated what I imposed upon cruelhearted adults in my small-town Mississippi childhood: gift-wrapped fresh cow manure or dead rats or possums deposited on their front porches in the yuletide.
    • 2011, Tarah Scott, Lord Keeper, →ISBN:
      “That is better than being a cruelhearted Scot,” she countered. “Cruel?” Kevin looked confused. “'Tis not cruel to seek justice.”
    • 2014, Martial, Selected Epigrams, →ISBN, page 28:
      The Sirens, gleeful scourge of mariners, beguiling bane and cruelhearted joy, whom no man could abandon once he'd heard them, were left, they say, through sly Ulysses' ploy.
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