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

“Yes, Miss Sybil, that red-headed, false-hearted White Cat, as you took into your house and home, for to beguile and corrupt your own true husband!”

From Cruel As The Grave by Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth

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

"And if there is now and then one among them who is not false-hearted," continued Mona, "is she not respected and loved for it?"

From Rockhaven by Charles Clark Munn

Surely she could not be so false-hearted as to break faith with him to-night; she would meet him and say good-bye?

From The Village by the River by H. Louisa Bedford

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

From Floyd Grandon's Honor by Amanda Minnie Douglas