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stony-hearted

[stoh-nee-hahr-tid]
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adjective

hardhearted.

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RELATED WORDS

barbarous, ruthless, inhuman, callous, brutal, hardened, merciless, cold, cold-hearted, compassionless, dispassionate, hard, hard-boiled, hardhearted, heartless, imperturbable, matter-of-fact, obdurate, pitiless, relentless

Origin of stony-hearted

First recorded in 1560–70
Related formsston·y-heart·ed·ly, adverbston·y-heart·ed·ness, noun
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Historical Examples of stony-hearted

  • "He is not so stony-hearted after all, mamma," said Olive, smiling.

    Olive

    Dinah Maria Craik, (AKA Dinah Maria Mulock)

  • William was wearing his most grave and stony-hearted expression.

  • After that, of course, we couldn't be stony-hearted; besides, we didn't want to be.

  • Yes, she was of that stony-hearted breed, unaltered by the centuries.

  • McCay was in no mood to subscribe to this stony-hearted view.

    The Man Upstairs

    P. G. Wodehouse

British Dictionary definitions for stony-hearted

stony-hearted

adjective

unfeeling; hardhearted
Derived Formsstonyheartedness, noun
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