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Definition of "hardhearted" [hardhearted]

  • Lacking in feeling or compassion; pitiless and cold. (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 "hardhearted" in a sentence
  • "I am sure some like dubbs have become "hardhearted" with the "pound and ground" fighting."
  • "Allen, if I was thinking on something (and that is never a given), it may have been on Deuteronomy 15: 7-11 (New International Version - Copyright ©): 7 If there is a poor man among your brothers in any of the towns of the land that the LORD your God is giving you, do not be hardhearted or tightfisted toward your poor brother."
  • "There is no way to be hardhearted about enormous poverty, yet it is equally impossible to be always heartbroken."