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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
cold-hearted
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a cold-hearted businessman
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Christopher Lambert stars as cold-hearted chess grandmaster Peter Sanderson who becomes a serial-killer suspect.
▪ Does it mean that she is cold-hearted?
▪ He couldn't be all that ruthless and cold-hearted if he respected his elders, she mused, her spirits lifting.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
cold-hearted

coldhearted \cold"heart`ed\, cold-hearted \cold"-heart`ed\, a. Wanting passion or feeling or emotional warmth; indifferent. -- cold"-heart`ed*ness, n.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
cold-hearted

c.1600, from cold (adj.) + hearted. Originally in Shakespeare. Old English had cealdheort (adj.) "cruel."

Wiktionary
cold-hearted

a. Without sympathy, feeling or compassion; callous or heartless alt. Without sympathy, feeling or compassion; callous or heartless

Usage examples of "cold-hearted".

The sheriffs had got inoculated and they had that task force thing trying to round up cold-hearted killers loose.

If a barbarous, cold-hearted murderer like her knelt before Soth, what sort of infernal creature must he be?

The Zamorian traitor was a smiling, laughing villain, dear to a Turanian heart Small, lean, lithe, and swaggering, handsome and reckless as a young god, Vardanes was an amusing drinking companion and a devilish fighter but as cold-hearted and untrustworthy as an adder.

Those of Lord Lodore appeared to his haughty wife but a new form of cold-hearted despotism, checking her pleasures whencesoever they might arise.

Neglect was the lightest term that could be applied to the systematized and cold-hearted tyranny of Henry towards his wife.

But if he could help to open the eyes of the cold-hearted, conceited, foolish girl, either to her own valuelessness as she was, or her worth as she might be, or again to the value, the eternal treasure of the heart she was turning from, she would then be a gift that in the giving grew worthy even of such a man!

A few months ago this would have been a surefire indication of my own barminess, and yet now it signifies only a cold-hearted and pragmatic sanity.

He pays for his earlier insensitivity by seeing the harmful results of his philosophy: Tom's life of crime, Bitzer's cold-hearted practicality, and Louisa's emotional breakdown.

Once installed in our house, she soon threw off the mask and showed herself in her true colors, a cold-hearted, selfish and disagreeable woman.

Her friend, Cerebella, seemed like she could make even a bull dyke whimper from a glimpse of her cold-hearted eyes.

I had been there once before, when a cold-hearted meter maid had failed to appreciate that a certain parking meter was simply swallowing my coins without regurgitating enough precious minutes to have a prescription filled.