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词汇 heartless
释义 heartless
adjective
uk /ˈhɑːt.ləs/ us /ˈhɑːrt.ləs/
cruel and not worrying about other people: 残酷的,无情的
Don't be so heartless!别那么无情!
Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples

not kind to someone or something and causing pain
cruelTeasing them for being overweight is cruel.
callousHe had a callous disregard for the feelings of others.
cold-bloodedThe budget is based on a cold-blooded analysis of the markets.
ruthlessHe was a ruthless dictator.
heartlessHe has been described as a heartless boss by several employees.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Unkind, cruel & unfeeling
acerbic
acerbically
acerbity
acidly
anti-cruelty
cold-heartedly
cruel
cruelly
cruelty
cruelty to someone/something
meanness
mental cruelty
merciless
mercilessly
mordant
trenchant
trenchantly
uncharitable
uncharitably
unchristian

heartless | American Dictionary


heartless
adjective
us/ˈhɑrt·ləs/
cruel or unkind:
She denounced the cutbacks on aid to the poor as heartless and shortsighted policies.

Examples of heartless


heartless
No doubt it may seem heartless to caution physicians about the emotional needs of any patient.
We cannot endure the fact that public morals are deteriorating and that people are becoming heartless.
This did not mean that military men felt themselves heartless, uncaring, and unsympathetic.
Throbbing hearts, twitching limbs, the pitiable blanching of cheeks would touch even heartless souls.
It is captured in the saying that parents should never be heartless (nggak tega) towards their children.
The gardener who has no ambition to appear as a writer in one or both of these works, must be a heartless mass of subsoil.
The worry that we have with this however, is the heartless utility of it all.
We are not some impersonal, heartless entity.
But this pietistic position seems disturbingly heartless, even pathological in its certainty, its refusal to identify with the fact of suffering and the resultant negation of individual will.
Hone had, earlier in 1817, published three biblical parodies that viciously and hilariously attacked what he regarded as a corrupt and heartless government and its church.
It is misdirected, heartless, likely to be ineffective and widely opposed.
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To say that one death is worthy of compensation, but that another is worth nothing at all is heartless and intellectually barren.
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It would be heartless and senseless to wait for that to happen.
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Let us analyse, therefore, the suggestion that this is callous and heartless, and all the rest of it, and compare the problem.
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Profit is a bird of passage always on the wing as opposed to interest, which is permanent, inexorable and heartless.
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