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stony-hearted

[stoh-nee-hahr-tid] / ˈstoʊ niˈhɑr tɪd /




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However, you'dbe stony-hearted indeed not to watch this on the edge of tears throughout.

From The Guardian • Jun. 27, 2012

Right on schedule, Nixon delivered his TV speech�which even stony-hearted critics ruled as the best of his political career.

From Time Magazine Archive

Mine were all the rights of social intercourse that India, stony-hearted step-mother of Collectors, has swindled us out of.

From From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel by Kipling, Rudyard

"From my own experience I cannot speak," replied the Count, "for I am a very stony-hearted person, but I should think that a man might."

From The Huguenot: (Volumes I-III) A Tale of the French Protestants. by James, G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford)

She wasn’t reconciled to his marriage; she didn’t care to receive Anna; she implied that regardless of Mr. Starkweather’s express wishes, Henry was a stony-hearted ingrate for remaining so long abroad.

From Rope by Hall, Holworthy