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Definition of "false-hearted" [false•-heart•ed]

  • Of a deceitful nature; treacherous. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "false-hearted" in a sentence
  • "Like a false-hearted lover just like my own, who made me love him, then left me alone."
  • "Which I have heard reported much among the Spaniards to have been the answer of our Queen Elizabeth of England to some that presented unto her of the fruits of America, that surely where those fruits grew, the women were light, and all the people hollow and false-hearted. 75"
  • "I want a man whom I can rely on to be false-hearted."