cruelhearted

comparative more cruelhearted · superlative most cruelhearted

1. alternativeAlternative form of cruel-hearted.

   You’re a cruelhearted little shitass, Brady told him. It’s no wonder your whole family moved off without tellin you where they were goin.

   2000 December 26, William Gay, book 2, in Provinces of Night, New York, N.Y.: Doubleday, →ISBN, page 87

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   Frequently have I been tempted to compose for him epistles of nearly Herzogian sweep, have even seriously contemplated what I imposed upon cruelhearted adults in my small-town Mississippi childhood: gift-wrapped fresh cow manure or dead rats or possums deposited on their front porches in the yuletide.

   2002, Willie Morris, Jack Bales, Shifting Interludes: Selected Essays, →ISBN, page 188

   “That is better than being a cruelhearted Scot,” she countered. “Cruel?” Kevin looked confused. “'Tis not cruel to seek justice.”

   2011, Tarah Scott, Lord Keeper, →ISBN

   The Sirens, gleeful scourge of mariners, beguiling bane and cruelhearted joy, whom no man could abandon once he'd heard them, were left, they say, through sly Ulysses' ploy.

   2014, Martial, Selected Epigrams, →ISBN, page 28