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False-hearted

False-hearted \False"-heart`ed\, a. Hollow or unsound at the core; treacherous; deceitful; perfidious.
--Bacon. -- False"-heart`ed*ness, n.
--Bp. Stillingfleet.

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false-hearted

a. disloyal, perfidious.

Usage examples of "false-hearted".

Yet if I betray my master's secret, I shall be a false-hearted knave and a traitor,- a crime provided for and punishable by military laws, as proved by the fact that twenty times in the wars I have seen miserable fellows strung up for doing in little degree what my scruples counsel me to do on a larger scale.