doghearted

Adjective

dog-hearted (comparative more dog-hearted, superlative most dog-hearted)

1. (archaic, rare) Inhuman; cruel.
   • A ſoueraigne ſhame ſo elbows him his own vnkindnes
     That ſtript her from his benediction turnd her,
     To forraine caſualties gaue her deare rights,
     To his dog-harted daughters […]c. 1603–1606 (date written), [William Shakespeare], […] His True Chronicle Historie of the Life and Death of King Lear and His Three Daughters. […] (First Quarto), London: […] Nathaniel Butter, […]...
2. Very fond of dogs.
   • Was Abraham Lincoln's mother dog-hearted? Did the mother of Napoleon waste her time crying because her poodle had the colic?1900, Addison McClung Brownlee, Sermons from the Tripod, page 48
3. Subservient and lowly, like a pet dog.
   • The measureless squalor, the calm, house-broken, dog-hearted, subjected, abjected, subtracted, contracted, signed sealed and delivered.1954, Louis Grudin, Inky Darkling, page 176