false-hearted

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Sleep if you can, you false-hearted crocodile!” said Rhoda, poetically, in distant imitation of the flowers of rhetoric of her friend Molly.

From The Maidens' Lodge None of Self and All of Thee, (In the Reign of Queen Anne) by Petherick, Horace

So all pitied the poor Vicar, despised his uppish, false-hearted wife, and most hated the young squire.

From The Life of Thomas Wanless, Peasant by Wilson, Alexander Johnstone

He was one: a false-hearted, plausible, cowardly sneak.

From Trevlyn Hold by Wood, Mrs. Henry

And all that time Harold, false-hearted, fair-spoken, mean-spirited Harold, was enjoying himself and playing the gallant to Isabel Walters!

From The Beckoning Hand and Other Stories by Allen, Grant

We have met and we have parted, Meet it were that love should die; Teach the winds, thou fond false-hearted, Teach the light wave constancy!

From The Legendary and Poetical Remains of John Roby author of 'Traditions of Lancashire', with a sketch of his literary life and character by Roby, John