Thesaurus / heartrending
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The most heartrending threat to the seeds was the citizens of Leningrad themselves.
THE BOTANIST WHO DEFIED STALIN - ISSUE 99: UNIVERSALITYLEE ALAN DUGATKINAPRIL 21, 2021NAUTILUSAs she twisted his great red ear, the agonized cries of Johnny became heartrending.
THE PIT TOWN CORONET, VOLUME II (OF 3)CHARLES JAMES WILLSThe unfortunate sufferers presented a heartrending picture, worthy of the painter of the Deluge.
THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS: ENVY AND INDOLENCEEUGNE SUEShe spent days in worshipping the small divinity of his person, and in the contemplation of his heartrending human attributes.
THE CREATORSMAY SINCLAIRThis was really heartrending when the difference in fare for three persons would be at least twenty dollars.
PENELOPE'S EXPERIENCES IN SCOTLANDKATE DOUGLAS WIGGINI saw none of those heartrending tragic scenes of parting, none of the wild grief that grows so much wilder for being indulged.
THE RELIEF OF MAFEKINGFILSON YOUNGShe gave it with a heartrending impulsiveness throwing back her head suddenly and leaning her bosom on mine.
IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE EVIDENCEOLIVER ONIONSThe groans of the wounded were heartrending; the dead could no longer speak.
MY REMINISCENCES OF THE ANGLO-BOER WARBEN VILJOEN.A wet blanket of so terrible a size was in itself pernicious to the Cabinet, and heartrending to the poor Duke.
THE PRIME MINISTERANTHONY TROLLOPEIt was a heartrending picture of sorrow and despair, and Mr. Murray could not witness it unmoved.
LITTLE FOLKS (NOVEMBER 1884)VARIOUSWORDS RELATED TO HEARTRENDING
- abject
- affecting
- afflicted
- arousing
- base
- beggarly
- cheap
- cheerless
- comfortless
- commiserative
- compassionate
- contemptible
- deplorable
- despicable
- dismal
- distressed
- distressing
- grievous
- heartbreaking
- heartrending
- inadequate
- insignificant
- joyless
- lamentable
- low
- mean
- miserable
- mournful
- moving
- paltry
- pathetic
- piteous
- pitiable
- sad
- scurvy
- shabby
- sorrowful
- sorry
- stirring
- suffering
- tearful
- touching
- vile
- woeful
- worthless
- wretched
- abject
- affecting
- afflicted
- arousing
- base
- beggarly
- cheap
- cheerless
- comfortless
- commiserative
- compassionate
- contemptible
- deplorable
- despicable
- dismal
- distressed
- distressing
- grievous
- heartbreaking
- heartrending
- inadequate
- insignificant
- joyless
- lamentable
- low
- mean
- miserable
- mournful
- moving
- paltry
- pathetic
- piteous
- pitiable
- poor
- rueful
- sad
- scurvy
- shabby
- sorrowful
- sorry
- stirring
- suffering
- tearful
- touching
- vile
- woeful
- worthless
- wretched
- affecting
- afflicted
- dejected
- depressed
- disconsolate
- distressing
- doleful
- dolent
- full of sorrow
- grievous
- heart-wrenching
- heartbroken
- heartrending
- heavy-hearted
- hurting
- in mourning
- in pain
- in sorrow
- lamentable
- lugubrious
- melancholy
- miserable
- mournful
- painful
- piteous
- plaintive
- rueful
- ruthful
- sad
- sick at heart
- singing the blues
- sorry
- tear-jerking
- tearful
- unhappy
- woebegone
- woeful
- wretched
- afflicted
- agonized
- anguished
- appalling
- awful
- bad
- calamitous
- catastrophic
- cruel
- deplorable
- disappointing
- disastrous
- disconsolate
- disgraceful
- distressing
- doleful
- dreadful
- feeble
- gloomy
- grieving
- grievous
- grim
- heartbreaking
- heartrending
- heartsick
- hopeless
- inadequate
- lamentable
- lousy
- mean
- miserable
- mournful
- paltry
- pathetic
- piteous
- pitiable
- pitiful
- plaintive
- poor
- racked
- rotten
- shocking
- sorrowful
- sorry
- tortured
- tragic
- unfortunate
- unhappy
- wretched
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