false-hearted

American  

[fawls-hahr-tid] / ˈfɔlsˈhɑr tɪd /

adjective

1. having a false or treacherous heart; deceitful; perfidious.

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Other Word Forms

• false-heartedness
  noun
• false-heartedly
  adverb

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Etymology

Origin of false-hearted

First recorded in 1565–75

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Example Sentences

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false-hearted

So Mr. Robert M'Gillies was consigned to his own lamentations in the dreary dungeons of Tothill-fields' Bridewell, and the false-hearted Julia Cob returned to her new lover in Norfolk-street.

From Mornings at Bow Street A Selection of the Most Humorous and Entertaining Reports which Have Appeared in the 'Morning Herald' by John Wight

He ate scarcely any food; but drank wine freely, remarking, however, that it was false-hearted stuff, did him no good, and had no taste as wine used to have.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 104, June, 1866 by Various

While he was in this state of love-lorn blindness the false-hearted knight Sir Mordred rode up with purpose to joust.

From Historic Tales, Vol 14 (of 15) The Romance of Reality by Charles Morris

The charming Eyes of Madame de R—— made me forget the false-hearted Creature on whom I had doated.

From The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, Volume III Being the Observations He Made in His Late Travels from Prussia thro' Germany, Italy, France, Flanders, Holland, England, &C. in Letters to His Friend. Discovering Not Only the Present State of the Chief Cities and Towns; but the Characters of the Principal Persons at the Several Courts. by Karl Ludwig von P?llnitz

"It was a lie imposed upon me by that false-hearted William Bellenger."

From Jessie Graham by Mary J. Holmes

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