hard-heartedness
Example Sentences
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That idea is widely shared: haggling about a funeral can feel like a display of hard-heartedness.
From Economist • Mar. 28, 2018
But the problem with the party’s response to Charleston isn’t hard-heartedness.
From Slate • Jun. 22, 2015
I can’t very well confront her with her carelessness, her sarcasm and her hard-heartedness, yet I can’t continue to take the blame for everything.
From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank
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Avarice in some, and bigotry in others, had closed up the avenues to compassion; but I do not recollect a single instance of hard-heartedness towards me in the women.
From An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans by Child, Lydia Maria Francis
And, on the other hand, parents, who, without the most solid grounds, coerce their children's inclinations, will probably one day pay the penalty of their hard-heartedness.
From Trevethlan (Vol 3 of 3) A Cornish Story. by Watson, William Davy