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词汇 heartless
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Definition of heartless in English:

heartless

adjective ˈhɑːtləsˈhɑrtləs
  • Displaying a complete lack of feeling or consideration.

    无情的;狠心的

    heartless thieves stole the pushchair of a two-year-old boy

    狠心贼连两岁男孩的婴儿车都要偷。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Cruel and heartless as it sounds, I don't do anything about this date.
    • His laugh was so cute, cuter then I would expect from someone as cold and heartless as he was.
    • We have a cruel and heartless system for the cared for and carers which needs to be overhauled.
    • They were all the same, cruel and heartless, never a care in the world about whom they hurt and whom they got pregnant.
    • Needless to say, each actor did well playing their role as ruthless or heartless as necessary.
    • The girl's voice was so cold and heartless at that point he thought he had lost her again.
    • In the end, he decided to do it in the coldest and most heartless way possible: through the press.
    • He becomes cold, heartless and an egotistical exhibitionist; much like the man that left him for dead.
    • The world can be a cruel, heartless place in which inequity thrives and true love fails.
    • So when heartless thieves ransacked and stole decorations from outside his Netley home he was devastated.
    • To top all this off, my horoscope read that I am a cruel heartless beast of a person.
    • This is going to be difficult to do without sounding heartless, but I'll give it a try.
    • The Great Depression went to show just how cold and heartless the government could be.
    • I'm not swayed by the humanitarian arguments, though I hope I'm not heartless.
    • I used to read her site every day but now I feel that I simply cannot as her comment was heartless and cruel.
    • Fox hunting is therefore cold, heartless, premeditated and above all, pointless.
    • She wondered what awful thing happened to him to make him act so cold and heartless.
    • The mother of an ill baby has hit out at a major gas supplier for leaving her without power after heartless thieves stole her gas credit card.
    • Like a cold, heartless machine, you are so logical and unemotional that you scarcely seem human.
    • A mother has hit out at heartless thieves who stole her son's memorial from a lamp-post.
    Synonyms
    unfeeling, unsympathetic, unkind, uncaring, unloving, unmoved, unconcerned, insensitive, inconsiderate, hard-hearted, stony-hearted, cold-hearted, cold-blooded, with a heart of stone, lacking compassion, mean-spirited, without sentiment, hard as nails
    cold, hard, harsh, stern, callous, cruel, brutal, merciless, pitiless, ruthless, inhuman

Derivatives

  • heartlessly

  • adverb ˈhɑːtləsliˈhɑrtləsli
    • She had never been lectured so brutally, so heartlessly!
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Sounds like a clear cut case of rapacious health care companies heartlessly trying to squeeze the hospitals for the benefit of their greedy shareholders, doesn't it?
      • ‘Mothers, who were accused of heartlessly abandoning their babies will be better understood as the young girls who were left no options by elders of the past,’ she says.
      • On Mozart's funeral a spoil-sport historian once again gives short shrift to our cherished melancholic picture of a great man just heartlessly chucked into a hole.
      • Our minister of justice is getting paid very well, I'm sure, for being assigned this position, but in the meantime he can heartlessly look the other way, and allow innocent people's lives to be destroyed.
  • heartlessness

  • noun ˈhɑːtləsnəsˈhɑrtləsnəs
    • The common understanding of this poem centres on its heartlessness, how inhuman, etc.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • I'm not happy to be in the Triangle, and I'm even less happy about going to war as a hired man for another government, but I find their heartlessness particularly disturbing.
      • Afterwards I asked the people with me why they tolerated such brutal dishonesty and heartlessness.
      • This is where the cruelty and heartlessness comes in.
      • Judged purely on its scripture - to say nothing of what is preached in the mosques - it is the most viciously sectarian of all religions in its heartlessness towards unbelievers.

Definition of heartless in US English:

heartless

adjectiveˈhärtləsˈhɑrtləs
  • Displaying a complete lack of feeling or consideration.

    无情的;狠心的

    heartless thieves stole the stroller of a two-year-old boy

    狠心贼连两岁男孩的婴儿车都要偷。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • They were all the same, cruel and heartless, never a care in the world about whom they hurt and whom they got pregnant.
    • In the end, he decided to do it in the coldest and most heartless way possible: through the press.
    • He becomes cold, heartless and an egotistical exhibitionist; much like the man that left him for dead.
    • The world can be a cruel, heartless place in which inequity thrives and true love fails.
    • Fox hunting is therefore cold, heartless, premeditated and above all, pointless.
    • I'm not swayed by the humanitarian arguments, though I hope I'm not heartless.
    • The Great Depression went to show just how cold and heartless the government could be.
    • The girl's voice was so cold and heartless at that point he thought he had lost her again.
    • The mother of an ill baby has hit out at a major gas supplier for leaving her without power after heartless thieves stole her gas credit card.
    • We have a cruel and heartless system for the cared for and carers which needs to be overhauled.
    • A mother has hit out at heartless thieves who stole her son's memorial from a lamp-post.
    • She wondered what awful thing happened to him to make him act so cold and heartless.
    • I used to read her site every day but now I feel that I simply cannot as her comment was heartless and cruel.
    • Needless to say, each actor did well playing their role as ruthless or heartless as necessary.
    • Like a cold, heartless machine, you are so logical and unemotional that you scarcely seem human.
    • Cruel and heartless as it sounds, I don't do anything about this date.
    • To top all this off, my horoscope read that I am a cruel heartless beast of a person.
    • This is going to be difficult to do without sounding heartless, but I'll give it a try.
    • His laugh was so cute, cuter then I would expect from someone as cold and heartless as he was.
    • So when heartless thieves ransacked and stole decorations from outside his Netley home he was devastated.
    Synonyms
    unfeeling, unsympathetic, unkind, uncaring, unloving, unmoved, unconcerned, insensitive, inconsiderate, hard-hearted, stony-hearted, cold-hearted, cold-blooded, with a heart of stone, lacking compassion, mean-spirited, without sentiment, hard as nails
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