black-hearted
adjective
disposed to doing or wishing evil; malevolent; malicious.
black-heartedness
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a word derived from
black-hearted.
Example Sentences
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I would never say of those great writers whose work clearly falls outside the category of non-redemptive, even anathematising black-heartedness I am championing that they make us "feel good".
From The Guardian ● Oct. 5, 2012
The utter depravity and black-heartedness of this plan, and his base ingratitude to the man who had aided him in every way, did not strike him.
From The Boy Aviators' Flight for a Fortune by John Henry Goldfrap
The legend was mixed up with him, and every day one heard of some new circumstance which enhanced the black-heartedness of his deed.
From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 03 by Charles F. (Charles Francis) Horne
It seemed as she sat there that such treachery and black-heartedness were almost incredible.
From A Butterfly on the Wheel by Cyril Arthur Edward Ranger Gull
