Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: heartless
IPA transcription: [h'ɑɹtləs]
adverb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: hardhearted, heartless
    Meaning: lacking in feeling or pity or warmth
  • Synonyms: heartless
    Meaning: devoid of courage or enthusiasm
Usage examples
  • But this would make me heartless towards my undoubted offspring.
  • I believed it to be nothing more nor less than a heartless and stupid "hoax."
  • The future has been filled with fear, stained and polluted by the heartless past.
  • You boys might wish as well!' They all wished hard, for the sight was enough to dismay the most heartless.
  • The little stiff tail seemed to have been fitted in for a heartless joke; and at the other end the thin, flat neck, like a plank covered with old horse-hide, drooped to the ground under the weight of an enormous bony head.
  • It might be that the banker had terrified this unhappy girl by some awful threat that had preyed upon her mind, and driven her from the man who loved her, whom she loved perhaps, in spite of those heartless words which she had spoken in the bitter hour of their parting.
  • In vain did he try to fortify himself by a thousand heartless examples of men of fashion, and to chill the glow of generous sentiment with that cold derisive levity with which he had heard them talk of female virtue: whenever he came into her presence she was still surrounded by that mysterious but impassive charm of virgin purity in whose hallowed sphere no guilty thought can live.
  • From year to year his one prayer was for an abundant Nile and a plentiful crop, not that he might thereby enrich himself, but that he might thereby secure a sufficiency for himself and his family and suffer less from the rapacious tyranny and heartless cruelty of those never-resting oppressors, his rulers and all who, as officials or favourites, were lifted even a little above his own level.