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cruelhearted

cruelhearted is the alternative form of cruel-hearted.

Meaning of cruel-hearted

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...

Forms of cruelhearted

comparativemore cruelhearted
superlativemost cruelhearted

Words formed from cruelhearted

Questions about cruelhearted

What is cruelhearted the alternative form of?
Cruelhearted is the alternative form of cruel-hearted.

Words near cruelhearted in the dictionary

  1. cruel-heartedly
  2. cruel-heartedness
  3. crueler
  4. cruelest
  5. cruelest-hearted
  6. cruelhearted
  7. cruelheartedness
  8. cruelize
  9. cruelized
  10. cruelizes
  11. cruelizing

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