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stony-hearted

[ stoh-nee-hahr-tid ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

stony-hearted

First recorded in 1560–70; stony ( def ) + hearted ( def )

Even this stony-hearted old man shrinks aghast at such a deed.

The stony-hearted man was remorseless, and that night Clarence Stanly became a wanderer in the wide, wide world.

I might have married half a dozen heiresses, but for the intervention of stony-hearted fathers.

Even the most stony-hearted were touched by the awfulness of this great calamity.

It may be the enchantress, or the "stony-hearted step-mother," but one part it can never play—that of the bore.

April 19, 2024tortuous

[tawr-choo-uhs ]

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