Crossword clues for heartless
heartless
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Heartless \Heart"less\, a.
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Without a heart.
You have left me heartless; mine is in your bosom.
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Destitute of courage; spiritless; despondent.
Heartless they fought, and quitted soon their ground.
--Dryden.Heartless and melancholy.
--W. Irwing. Destitute of feeling or affection; unsympathetic; cruel. ``The heartless parasites.''
--Byron. -- Heart"less*ly, adv. -- Heart"less*ness, n.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English heortleas "dispirited, dejected;" see heart + -less. In Middle English with expanded senses "lacking in courage; foolish; listless; half-hearted; sluggish." Sense of "callous, cruel" is not certainly attested before Shelley used it in 1816. Literal meaning "lacking a heart, lifeless" (mid-15c.) is rare. Related: Heartlessly; heartlessness.
Wiktionary
a. Without a heart; specifically, without feeling, emotion, or concern for others; uncaring.
WordNet
adj. marked by lack of heart or feeling; "a heartless tyrant"; "heartless words" [ant: hearted]
lacking in feeling or pity or warmth [syn: hardhearted] [ant: softhearted]
devoid of courage or enthusiasm
Wikipedia
Heartless may refer to:
"Heartless" is a song written and recorded by the rock band Heart in 1976 for their album Magazine. Issues with the band's previous record label Mushroom caused a delay in the album's release and "Heartless" was released as a single two years later, after the re-issue of their first single " Crazy on You".
"Heartless" & " Without You" were the only singles released from Magazine, with "Heartless" peaking at number twenty-four on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100. Only five months passed before Heart released their next album, Dog and Butterfly.
"Heartless" is a song by American hip hop artist Kanye West, released on November 4, 2008 digitally as the second single for his fourth studio album, 808s & Heartbreak. It debuted at the number four spot on the Billboard Hot 100 where it eventually peaked at number two and reached number-one on the Billboard Hot Rap Tracks and U.S. Hot 100 Airplay chart.
The song came to be covered by numerous artists, most notably by Denver-based piano rock band the Fray, American Idol season 8 winner Kris Allen, and singer-songwriter Dia Frampton (runner-up of season 1 of The Voice), with all three versions managing to enter charts in the absence of a physical single release. "Heartless" is one of the best selling singles of all time, selling 5.5 million digital copies in 2009.
Heartless (also known as Lethal Seduction) is a 2005 film written by Howard Swindle and Adam Greenman, directed by Robert Markowitz. The film's running time is 90 minutes.
Heartless is a 2009 British horror film written and directed by Philip Ridley and starring Jim Sturgess, Noel Clarke, Clémence Poésy and Eddie Marsan. This was Ridley's first film in fourteen years since 1995's The Passion of Darkly Noon. The film garnered positive reception from critics who praised the performances and dark atmospheric tone that complimented the Faustian plot.
Heartless is a steampunk paranormal romance novel by Gail Carriger. Released on June 28, 2011, by Orbit Books, Heartless is the fourth book in the New York Times best-selling "The Parasol Protectorate" series, each featuring Alexia Tarabotti, a woman without a soul, as its lead character.
Heartless is a 1995 Italian crime- drama film directed by Umberto Marino.
Heartless is a Danish drama series from 2014 on Kanal 5 and is produced in the Danish language with maturity ratings TV-MA for mature audiences. It was directed by Natasha Arthy, produced by Ronnie Fridthjof, Signe Emilie Bjorke, and Bo Mortensen; script by Nikolaj Scherfig and Morten Dragsted. In the show, twins Sebastian and Sofie enroll in Ottsmansgaard boarding school hoping to discover the secret of their supernatural curse.
The first season was released on Netflix in Canada and the United States in April 2016.
Heartless is a 2014 Bollywood medical thriller film directed by Shekhar Suman. Shekhar Suman also stars in the film along with his son Adhyayan Suman. The film also features Ariana Ayam, Deepti Naval, Om Puri and Madan Jain amongst others. It released on 7 February 2014, to mixed reviews from critics. The film focuses on anaesthesia awareness, where a patient cannot move or communicate, but is aware to varying degrees of what is happening during surgical procedures. Several critics have noticed striking similarities between the film and the 2007 Hollywood medical thriller Awake, leading some to describe Heartless a copy of said film.
Usage examples of "heartless".
She met the heartless pig who got her pregnant in Anguilla a few weeks ago.
For it was one of her dreams, perhaps the six hundred and seventy-ninth in the series, that one day she would sit at a desk answering innumerable telephone calls with projecting jaw, as millionaires do on the movies, and crushing rivals like blackbeetles in order that, after being reviled by the foolish as a heartless plutocrat, she might hand a gigantic Trust over to the Socialist State.
But when it is considered that these same experiments might have been conducted under the influence of an anaesthetic, so as to minimize, if not remove, this needless suffering, this cold-blooded, heartless torture can only be characterized as contemptible and monstrous.
Denny Fouts must have felt, for I had been as heartless to him as Helen had been to Bob.
The Inquisition was reinstituted, as were the privileges of the nobility, clergy, and military, and a heartless persecution was unleashed against dissidents, opponents, liberals, Francophiles, and former collaborators in the government of Joseph Bonaparte.
Some Liberian coffee shrubs, some tea, cinchona, and ipecacuanha, and some heartless English cabbages, are being grown on the hillside, and the Resident hopes that the State will have a great future of coffee.
It would have been heartless to leave them out there in the dark at the mercy of wild beasts and Nguni scouts.
Is it that by its indefiniteness it shadows forth the heartless voids and immensities of the universe, and thus stabs us from behind with the thought of annihilation, when beholding the white depths of the milky way?
Then followed the confusing and confounding impressions of the landing, where the great nation, compelled by experience, seems to guard itself against the instreaming invasion of undesired elements, and investigates and selects with humiliating, apparently heartless strictness, as though we were animals to be examined.
When God demands a reason for the sorrows of the street, The wrong things and the bad things And the sad things that we meet In the filthy lane and alley, and the cruel, heartless street.
Jaghut Tyrants had not commanded such heartless mastery over their subjects.
The characterization of Giuliani as a heartless brute vanished into thin air like the blather it always was.
It was heartless, too, of Annot to say such things at such a time, just as he was going to leave her, on the eve of battle, and when he had left his own master, and all the glorious confusion and good living in--at Durbellire, merely that he might spend his last quiet day in her company.
Horse and rider appeared fo merge into one naked batch of muscle: not so much of a man or of a horse, but of a weapon, piercing and heartless, like the Croatian plain, upon which the threat of the Ottoman Turks, who in 1453 replaced the Byzantines at Constantinople , rose and fell.
You cock-sucking blood-licking-arse-kissing defilers of sacred shrines, you brainless heartless gutless cockless offspring of an imbecile and a deformed cow, you flea-bitten child-robbers who poisoned your fathers and raped your mothers and sold your sisters to the Dutch and carved up your brothers for sale in a butcher's shop, you gutter-hugging traders in second-hand excrement, why didn't you do anything about this?