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stonyhearted

ADJECTIVE

cold-blooded

Synonyms

WEAK

barbarous brutal callous cold cold-hearted compassionless dispassionate hard hard-boiled hard-hearted hardened hardhearted heartless imperturbable inhuman matter-of-fact merciless obdurate pitiless relentless ruthless savage steely stony-hearted uncompassionate unemotional unfeeling unmoved

Example Sentences

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It was a stonyhearted eyewitness, with rules and limits of its own, that Avedon had to accept and build upon.

From New York Times • Feb. 2, 2023

Now hundreds of thousands of them will receive a reward only a stonyhearted statistician could appreciate: another round of exams.

From New York Times • May 19, 2013

Men who knew him then say that he never smiled, never was gay, gave the impression of being stonyhearted.

From Time Magazine Archive

A legend among prisoners in the Gulag, Kaminskaya was said to have the eloquence to move the most stonyhearted judge to render a merciful decision.

From Time Magazine Archive

"Of these stones," perhaps, but less easily of the stonyhearted monks, who with pitiless smiles watched the abbot's sorrow, which should soon bring him to his ruin.

From Froude's Essays in Literature and History With Introduction by Hilaire Belloc by Belloc, Hilaire