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

Etymology

Origin of false-hearted

First recorded in 1565–75

Example Sentences

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false-hearted

Fool I was, in truth; but it was to yield to the bad advice my false and false-hearted friend tendered.

From Peter the Whaler by Austin, Henry

Her false-hearted summer friends could now weep for her as the daughter of the rich Griffin Taylor, while they would scarcely have regretted her as simply the wife of a poor soldier.

From 'Three Score Years and Ten' Life-Long Memories of Fort Snelling, Minnesota, and Other Parts of the West by Van Cleve, Charlotte Ouisconsin Clark

Surely he cannot have been so deceitful, so false-hearted.

From Floyd Grandon's Honor by Douglas, Amanda Minnie

So all pitied the poor Vicar, despised his uppish, false-hearted wife, and most hated the young squire.

From The Life of Thomas Wanless, Peasant by Wilson, Alexander Johnstone

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 P?llnitz, Karl Ludwig von