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ˈcold-ˌhearted, a. [f. cold heart + -ed2.] Wanting in sensibility, cordiality, or natural affection; unfeeling; unkind.
1606Shakes. Ant. & Cl. iii. xiii. 158 Cold-hearted toward me? 1742Young Nt. Th. iv. 638 O ye cold-hearted, frozen Formalists! 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. 151 The cold-hearted and scoffing Grammont. 1878Morley Crit. Misc. Ser. i. Carlyle 188 The mechanical, prosaic, utilitarian, cold-hearted character of Wilhelm Meister. Hence cold-ˈheartedly adv.; also cold-ˈheartedness.
1850B. Taylor Eldorado iv. (1862) 37 Indignation at your cold-heartedness. |