cold-hearted
Example Sentences
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I don’t wish to be cold-hearted, but none of us are in a position to take on the responsibility ourselves.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 5, 2026
I am not cold-hearted enough to want any of these characters to depart mid-crisis or accept less than a happy life.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2025
And when they hear "aromantic", she says, they think you "must just be quite cold-hearted and closed off or you have commitment issues".
From BBC ● Aug. 4, 2023
“She is not the cold-hearted person the government and media have made her out to be,” the lawyer wrote.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 27, 2023
Couldn’t no one but a demon be that cold-hearted, and even if the Preacher had a whole boatload of things that’d make you wonder, couldn’t no one say he waren’t a man.
From "Elijah of Buxton" by Christopher Paul Curtis
