dark hearted

Adjective

dark-hearted (comparative more dark-hearted or darker-hearted, superlative most dark-hearted or darkest-hearted)

1. Malevolent; cold and cruel.
   • And, at a feast, one of the darkest-hearted fellows, one of the very few who didn’t come to Church, got up and proposed they should throw off the Worship, as it was only bringing sickness and death among them, after all they had given up for it.1894, Maggie Whitecross Paton, “The Shipwreck and the Angel-Child”, in James Paton, editor, Letters and Sketches from the New Hebrides, London: Hodder and Stoughton […], →OCLC, page 163
2. (archaic) Unenlightened; ignorant of holy teachings.
   • His dying command makes in incumbent on his followers to offer the “unspeakable gift” alike at the door of cottage and palace, forecastle and cabin. Mountain top and vale— plain and ocean are to be made to rejoice in the “glad tidings of great joy.” How the dark-hearted of earth need its light.1853, Naval Journal - Volume 25, page 135
3. Despondent.
   • I was not prosperous enough to become intoxicated, nor poor enough to grow moody and dark-hearted, nor sufficiently at ease in my circumstances to sit idle and invent sin.1862, Gerald Griffin, The Rivals: And Tracy's Ambition, page 205
4. Bleak.
   • What is the latest word from the dark-hearted hills?1953, Frank Borden Hanes, The Bat Brothers, page 294
5. Having dark heartwood.
   • The wood is pale yellowish, often dark-hearted, close, dense, liable to split.1901, The Journal of the Ceylon Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland, Volumes 16-17, page 226
6. Having a dark center.
   • I seemed to look down on a parterre of mixed hyacinths, variegated tulips, and dark-hearted poppies, as I beheld them.1867, Catherine Ann Warfield, The Romance of Beauseincourt, page 126