dark hearted

comparative more dark hearted · comparative darker hearted · superlative most dark hearted · superlative darkest hearted

1. alternativeAlternative form of dark-hearted.

   May God have mercy on this dark hearted and wicked man, and save him from ruin.

   1975, R. S. Miller, Misi Gete: John Geddie pioneer missionary to the New Hebrides

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   The star, broad blazing, lingers till it steep / Its gathered folds of radiance where the West / Reflects the unpeopled heaven on the breast / Of seas now dimmed, which mourn, their glory gone, / The lifeless splendours of an empty throne. / Well mightst thou, star of beauteous glory, be / To darker hearted men a deity.

   1847 May–August, “Green Point. (Table Bay.)”, in The Metropolitan Magazine, volume XLIX, London: Kent and Richards, […], →OCLC, page 427

   There never was a darker hearted or a more criminal strangling of a mighty people than that attempted by “Bill” Clark and four-eyed Wellcome at Helena this week.

   1899 January 14, “Caught in the Act: ‘Billie’ and His Gang of Boodlers Are Hauled Up Short for Their Crooked Work. […]”, in The Butte Times, volume 5, number 52, Butte, Mont., →OCLC, page [4], column 1

   How sad and dark hearted In deep pain I pine, Since fortune has parted Her fondness from mine.

   1894, Cork Historical and Archaeological Society, Journal of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society

   Upon the Baltic ash assuming size it becomes dark hearted, a remark which applies to it without exception.

   1894, William Stevenson, Wood: Its Use as a Constructive Material, page 124

   As they talked, neither of them noticed Scarfeather, the darkest hearted crow there had ever been, perched on a tree and listening to them. The news made Scarfeather very angry and, as he sat and watched them, a plan began to form in his cruel mind.

   1988, Arvan Kumar, “Closer to the Son”, in The Heartstone Odyssey: Chandra’s Story, Dingwall, Highland: Allied Mouse, published 1999 (14th printing), page 112