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Heartlessly

Heartless \Heart"less\, a.

  1. Without a heart.

    You have left me heartless; mine is in your bosom.
    --J. Webster.

  2. Destitute of courage; spiritless; despondent.

    Heartless they fought, and quitted soon their ground.
    --Dryden.

    Heartless and melancholy.
    --W. Irwing.

  3. Destitute of feeling or affection; unsympathetic; cruel. ``The heartless parasites.''
    --Byron. -- Heart"less*ly, adv. -- Heart"less*ness, n.

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heartlessly

adv. In a heartless manner.

WordNet
heartlessly

adv. in a heartless manner; "she behaves rather heartlessly toward her admirers"

Usage examples of "heartlessly".

You left my service faithlessly and heartlessly, with the hope of marrying a fortune.

She rather heartlessly abandoned the invalid—which would appear to have been a good thing for the invalid, for, lacking Helene's ministrations, she got better.

The scramasax hilt and sheath might have been heartlessly plain by most standards, but Lailoken had never owned anything so fine.