heartlessness
- a word derived from heartless.
Example Sentences
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“Here from this crossing, we see the heartbreak and heartlessness … a long line of blocked relief trucks on one side of the gates, the long shadow of starvation on the other,” he said.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 23, 2024
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
When I see that look Chauvin gave the onlookers, I see more than heartlessness.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 1, 2021
Accepting these lower estimates, however, does nothing to lessen the heartlessness of former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright's notorious response to Lesley Stahl of CBS regarding the deaths of Iraqi children under sanctions.
From Salon ● Mar. 13, 2021
For total greed, rapacity, heartlessness, and irresponsibility there is nothing to match a nation.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
