heartless
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She added: "Please give this heartless woman the maximum prison sentence so she won't be able to hurt other families like ours."
From BBC • Apr. 8, 2026
What an interesting conclusion, considering her refusal to take accountability for other mistakes, including the show’s heartless depiction of Sullivan’s wounding.
From Salon • Feb. 20, 2026
The caricature of corporate America is heartless indifference, but Paul Gigot and Rupert Murdoch were there for my family and me.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 20, 2025
Though mean-spirited, the jester Rigoletto — Verdi’s hapless, vengeful hunchback — wins our hearts as the outsider whom a heartless world so often abuses.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 3, 2025
Jim Button was motherless, too—and all you found in fairy tales were wicked stepmothers; heartless, jealous stepmothers...the list could go on forever.
From "Inkheart" by Cornelia Funke
Vocabulary lists containing heartless
"The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet," Vocabulary from Act 1
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"The Clever Old Woman" and "Argument"
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The Flicker
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