How to Use coldhearted in a Sentence

coldhearted

adjective

• People are criticizing the government's coldhearted plans to stop funding programs for the poor.
• Wohlleben used to be a coldhearted butcher of trees and forests.
  — Diàna Markosian, Smithsonian, 22 Feb. 2018
• Today is one of those times a sensible assessment of risk looks more coldhearted than clear-eyed.
  — James MacKintosh, WSJ, 5 June 2017
• One is a coldhearted killer, and the other is a manipulator.
  — Brent Lang, Variety, 7 Jan. 2026
• Over the course of the following nine episodes, however, Carr evolved into a coldhearted killer.
  — Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 4 Dec. 2025
• Two dimwits concoct a scheme to prevent their friend from marrying a coldhearted and conniving woman.
  — Ed Stockly, Los Angeles Times, 2 Apr. 2021
• To many, the action confirmed a view of Hoover as coldhearted and detached from reality.
  — Terence McArdle, Washington Post, 28 July 2017
• But sometimes, modern science interrupts that story with coldhearted facts.
  — Dave McIntyre, Washington Post, 7 July 2022
• Seasonal joy comes to a screeching halt when a coldhearted woman tries to sell her hometown’s land, but the love and cheer of the small town may ultimately change her heart and her mind.
  — Washington Post, 21 Nov. 2020
• Except that his equally coldhearted sister now threatens to take custody of her two beloved children, claiming that a single woman is no fit guardian for a young viscount.
  — Olivia Waite, New York Times, 28 Apr. 2023
• If anything, Prime Minister Abe is just a coldhearted realist.
  — Jon Emont, WSJ, 4 Oct. 2018
• And the team’s paring of its scouting staff, while perhaps a bit coldhearted, was prompted by a belief that the grizzled road warrior with a radar gun in his hand and a cigar clenched between his teeth has become an anachronism.
  — Steven Goldman, Slate Magazine, 27 Oct. 2017
• By the early ’90s, as hip-hop evolved from its upbeat dance origins to more coldhearted expressions, that shift threatened the careers of rappers who presented themselves as lovers.
  — Clover Hope, Pitchfork, 6 Sep. 2023
• And if Roe is indeed overturned, God bless our country that can make such a terrible, coldhearted mistake and yet, half a century later, redress it, right it, turn it around.
  — Peggy Noonan, WSJ, 5 May 2022
• The biographer has succeeded in humanizing the public image of the coldhearted secret police chief.
  — Kai Bird, Washington Post, 9 Nov. 2022
• Parton plays a guardian angel trying to find the goodness in a businesswoman (Christine Baranski) who’s three times more coldhearted than Jolene.
  — Star Tribune, 20 Nov. 2020
• There are ambitious Black politicians, avaricious developers and coldhearted investment bankers.
  — Rodney Ho, ajc, 7 Nov. 2021
• In particular, experts point to the amygdala—a part of the limbic system—as a physiological culprit for coldhearted or violent behavior.
  — Barbara Bradley Hagerty, The Atlantic, 16 May 2017
• Biden will face new accusations of betraying America's helpers, and of putting coldhearted judgments of national interest ahead of basic humanity.
  — Stephen Collinson, CNN, 18 Aug. 2021
• The image of the mustache-twirling landlord as villain goes back at least to the Industrial Revolution, when popular culture made the role synonymous with coldhearted extraction from the poor.
  — Michael Friedrich, New York Times, 18 Oct. 2023
• Only a coldhearted road tripper heading southeast toward Indio on I-10 would pass Shields’s roadside curiosity without tasting the granddaddy of all date shakes.
  — Jennifer Emerling, National Geographic, 6 Aug. 2019
• The remaining members of the Marlins, left behind in the wake of a coldhearted sell-off, managed only one hit against Yankees starter Luis Severino, who profited from the mismatch and improved to 3-1.
  — David Waldstein, New York Times, 16 Apr. 2018
• Malice pits a ruthless venture capitalist (David Duchovny, lending the show its only real star power) against a coldhearted snake in the grass (Jack Whitehall’s Adam), with appropriately dark results.
  — Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 14 Nov. 2025