cold-hearted
/kəʊldˈhɑːtɪd
/adjective
Lacking affection or warmth; unfeeling: Tom was unloved by his cold-hearted wife...
- Before Logan came into my life, all those rumours you probably heard about me being a cold-hearted and uncaring cheerleader were all true.
- He comes across as harsh and cold-hearted, but is not afraid to show Keel's warmer side if need be.
- It's hard to empathise with a cold-hearted man who, in developing the electric chair, first practised on household pets.
Synonyms
unfeeling, unloving, uncaring, unsympathetic, unemotional, unfriendly, uncharitable, unkind, insensitive, indifferent, detached;
hard-hearted, stony-hearted, with a heart of stone, heartless, hard, harsh, austere, cold
Derivatives
cold-heartedly
- She lured my son into a situation, made him vulnerable and then brutally and cold-heartedly killed him.
- Look at it cold-heartedly, who has more motive to concoct a story?
- Science can measure and balance acreages in this way just as cold-heartedly as commerce; developers involved in such trading undoubtedly have the assistance of ecologists.
cold-heartedness
- This is the perfect mood to be in for my award-winning cynicism and inhuman cold-heartedness.
- To his first wife he revealed a cold-heartedness that bordered on brutality.
- It's easy to condemn the cold-heartedness of big business, the callousness of large corporations.
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