adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a hard-hearted and unprincipled man
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I've tried to help in the past, but I think now I have to be hard-hearted and make them help themselves.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A good organiser is totally objective, even downright hard-hearted in choosing venue, style, speakers and programme.
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Anabelle watched him go, thinking that she had never met so many hard-hearted and spiteful creatures in her whole short life.
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Another case of hard-hearted capitalists pushing aside the less fortunate to enhance their investments?
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Clinton began his political comeback after the debacle of the 1994 congressional elections as the protector of the elderly from hard-hearted Republicans.
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It proves you're not as hard-hearted as I imagined.
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Love and politics clash when Maggie falls for a hard-hearted soldier.