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adjective

Heartless adj.

Without a heart. "You have left me heartless; mine is in your bosom."

Destitute of courage; spiritless; despondent. "Heartless they fought, and quitted soon their ground." "Heartless and melancholy."

Destitute of feeling or affection; unsympathetic; cruel. "The heartless parasites."

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Etymology of 'Heartless'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Heartless" Quotes from Famous Books

... glorious summer. A party of us planned an artistic tour, camping out, living with Nature, and wresting her secrets of tone and color from her, studying in the dim, cathedral like recesses of the woods, apart from the glare and conventionalism of the heartless world——" ...

— Floyd Grandon's Honor • Amanda Minnie Douglas

... "God is a Spirit; and they that worship him must worship in spirit and in truth." Be particularly careful that you do not mock God in singing. This part of worship, I fear, is too often performed in a heartless manner. Try to sing with the spirit, as well as the understanding. And whenever you come to anything in the language of the psalm or hymn which you cannot adopt as your own, omit it. If you sing before him what you ...

— A Practical Directory for Young Christian Females - Being a Series of Letters from a Brother to a Younger Sister • Harvey Newcomb

... world without the beggar's outstretched palm, the miser's heartless, stony stare, the piteous wail of want, the livid lips of lies, ...

— Public Speaking • Irvah Lester Winter

... possibilities, one or other of which was inevitable, through all the windings of the torture of anticipation, until for a time she must have lost consciousness, for she had no recollection of falling where she found herself—on the heap in the middle of the floor. The gray heartless dawn had begun to peer in through the dull green glass that closed the one loophole. It grew and grew, and its growth was the approach of the grinning demon of shame. The nearer a man can arrive to the knowledge of such feelings as hers ...

— St. George and St. Michael • George MacDonald

... He wanted to exhibit the grand style." So says Vasari, and Vasari is partly right. But we must not fall into the paradox, so perversely maintained by Ruskin in his lecture on Tintoretto and Michelangelo, that the latter was a cold and heartless artist, caring chiefly for the display of technical skill and anatomical science. Partial and painful as we may find the meaning of the Last Judgment, that meaning has been only too powerfully and personally ...

— The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti • John Addington Symonds

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