stony-heartedness
- a word derived from stony-hearted.
Example Sentences
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She told him of the stony-heartedness of music-publishers, of the difficulty of getting songs printed unless you paid for them, of their wretched sales.
From The Man Upstairs and Other Stories by Wodehouse, P. G. (Pelham Grenville)
No one, whom I saw, exhibited any emotion at the strewn spectacles on every side, and the stories I had read of the stony-heartedness during the plague, were more than rivalled by these charnel realities.
From Campaigns of a Non-Combatant, and His Romaunt Abroad During the War by Townsend, George Alfred
Lady Everington has been criticised for stony-heartedness, for opportunism, and for selfish abuse of her husband's vast wealth.
From Kimono by Paris, John
They discuss the inconsistency of the parson, the stony-heartedness of the farmer, the behaviour of this young woman and that young man; and what better could they do?
From Catharine Furze by Rutherford, Mark
