cruelhearted
See also: cruel-hearted
English
[edit]Adjective
[edit]cruelhearted (comparative more cruelhearted, superlative most cruelhearted)
- 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.