Meanings
comparative more heartlessly · superlative most heartlessly
- In a heartless manner.
As you recover from Junkspace, Junkspace recovers from you: between 2 and 5 a.m., yet another population, this one heartlessly casual and appreciably darker, is mopping, hoovering, sweeping, toweling, resupplying.
2014, Jen Jack Gieseking, William Mangold, Cindi Katz, The People, Place, and Space Reader, →ISBN, page 241 more example
It is the habit of heartlessly pecking at these that shows a soul that is blasé. Of late, for example, it has been a fashion with a small minority of British writers to assert their culture by a very supercilious demeanour towards an idea which ought, beyond all others, to be sacred in this island—the idea of Liberty.
1860 May, [David Masson], “Three Vices of Current Literature”, in David Masson, editor, Macmillan’s Magazine, volume II, number 7, Cambridge: Macmillan and Co. […], →OCLC, page 11, column 2
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Translations
Finnish sydämettömästi
- sydämettömästiin a heartless manner
French cruellement, sans cœur
- cruellementin a heartless manner
- sans cœurin a heartless manner
Greek άκαρδα, άπονα
- άκαρδα (ákarda)in a heartless manner
- άπονα (ápona)in a heartless manner
Polish bezdusznie
- bezduszniein a heartless manner
Slovak bezcitne
- bezcitnein a heartless manner
Cite this entry
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