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-heartedly
  adverb
• false-heartedness
  noun

Etymology

Origin of false-hearted

First recorded in 1565–75

Example Sentences

He therefore warmly resents Wordsworth's remark about "that cold and false-hearted, frenchified coxcomb, Horace Walpole."

From The Gentle Reader by Crothers, Samuel McChord

I’ve had plenty of them and to spare from those mealy-mouthed, false-hearted, longshore lubbers in there!”

From Crown and Anchor Under the Pen'ant by Greene, John B.

"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 Munn, Charles Clark

Sleep if you can, you false-hearted crocodile!” said Rhoda, poetically, in distant imitation of the flowers of rhetoric of her friend Molly.

From The Maidens' Lodge None of Self and All of Thee, (In the Reign of Queen Anne) by Petherick, Horace

When the sun Dries up the boundless main, When black is white, false-hearted one, I may be yours again!

From The Book of Humorous Verse by Wells, Carolyn