heartless
adjective
unfeeling; unkind; unsympathetic; harsh; cruel.
heartlessness
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a word derived from
heartless.
Example Sentences
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None of us is exempt from being pushed to our limits by capitalism’s heartlessness.
From Salon ● Oct. 7, 2025
The heartlessness of this phrase perfectly sums up the cruelty of a once-popular, now proscribed entertainment that always seems to be bubbling up from the collective American unconscious.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 10, 2022
“Furious at the anti-science ignorance causing the thousands of totally unnecessary deaths. Sad at my own growing heartlessness about it.”
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 1, 2021
The heartlessness of it couldn’t be ignored or shrugged off.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 20, 2021
“How I’ve stood this heartlessness through the years I’ll never know.”
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
