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cruel-hearted

cruel-hearted adjective: cruel; lacking kindness and compassion.

Adjective

cruel-hearted (comparative more cruel-hearted or (rare) crueler-hearted, superlative most cruel-hearted or (rare) cruelest-hearted)

  1. Cruel; lacking kindness and compassion.
    • I thinke Crab my dog, be the ſowreſt natured dogge that liues: My Mother weeping: my Father wayling: my Siſter crying: our Maid howling: our Catte wringing her hands, and all our houſe in a great perplexitie, yet did not this cruell-hearted Curre ſhedde one teare: he is a ſtone, a very pibble...c. 1590–1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Two Gentlemen of Verona”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and...
    • Leave hold of my hand. I’m not crying: / And if ever I were, John, what then? / Would my tears not prove you had acted / Like the cruelest-hearted of men?1868 November 14, “The Poet’s Wife”, in Harper’s Weekly. A Journal of Civilization., volume XII, number 620, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, page 722, column 1

cruel-hearted meaning in Tamil

cruel-hearted in Tamil

கொடுமையில் மகிழ்ச்சி காண்கிற, கடின சித்தமுள்ள, இரக்கமற்ற

Forms of cruel-hearted

comparativemore cruel-hearted
superlativemost cruel-hearted
comparative (rare)crueler-hearted
superlative (rare)cruelest-hearted

Words formed from cruel-hearted

Questions about cruel-hearted

What does cruel-hearted mean?
Cruel-hearted means cruel; lacking kindness and compassion.
What is cruel-hearted in Tamil?
Cruel-hearted in Tamil is கொடுமையில் மகிழ்ச்சி காண்கிற, கடின சித்தமுள்ள, இரக்கமற்ற. See Cruel-hearted meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is cruel-hearted?
Cruel-hearted is an adjective.

Words near cruel-hearted in the dictionary

  1. crudzines
  2. crue
  3. cruel
  4. cruel mistress
  5. cruel mistresses
  6. cruel-hearted
  7. cruel-heartedly
  8. cruel-heartedness
  9. crueler
  10. cruelest
  11. cruelest-hearted

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