as in icy
lacking kindness, sympathy, or sensitivity
She's a smart but coldhearted woman. a coldhearted criminal a coldhearted refusal
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Recent Examples of coldhearted
Who could blame her for wondering why, and for seeking out literally any explanation besides coldhearted rejection?
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Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Mar. 2024
The coldhearted doc resurrects Kirsty's stepmother, Julia (Clare Higgins), who has been stuck in hell alongside Pinhead (Bradley) and the Cenobites since the end of the first film.
—Declan Gallagher, EW.com, 19 Oct. 2023
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
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
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Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Mar. 2024
The coldhearted doc resurrects Kirsty's stepmother, Julia (Clare Higgins), who has been stuck in hell alongside Pinhead (Bradley) and the Cenobites since the end of the first film.
—Declan Gallagher, EW.com, 19 Oct. 2023
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
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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for coldhearted
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From island flavors at the Caribbean Beach Resort to the splash zones of Typhoon Lagoon and the icy adventures at Blizzard Beach, there’s still plenty of time to soak up every last drop of the summer.—
Martie Bowser,
Miami Herald,
5 Sep. 2025
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From sweltering summer afternoons to rainy days and icy winters, there are plenty of times when heading outside just isn’t an option.—
Kelsey Monstrola,
USA Today,
5 Sep. 2025
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The need for such shelters came into sharp focus in January 2025, when prolonged periods of frigid winter weather gripped Louisville.—
Killian Baarlaer,
The Courier-Journal,
3 Sep. 2025
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Prior to and after the ruling, a small but noisy crowd spent those fateful hours chanting in support outside the PJ headquarters in San Telmo, a nearby Buenos Aires neighborhood, many of whom followed her back to Calle San José that frigid night.—
Agustino Fontevecchia,
Forbes.com,
27 Aug. 2025
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The fair also will feature two stages of music, an entertainment dome, mouthwatering festival food and plenty of cold beer.—
Michael Deeds,
Idaho Statesman,
10 Sep. 2025
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In a study, the team describes how cooling a gas of radioactive atoms to temperatures colder than deep space could synchronize their radioactive decay.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
9 Sep. 2025
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Like the blind father, the country is desperately trying to overcome its past and disadvantages, in pursuit of a more beautiful future — but that pursuit almost necessarily entails a brittle form of pride, which leads to various injustices along the way.—
Patrick Brzeski,
HollywoodReporter,
9 Sep. 2025
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The risk is that the model overreaches, stripping out human oversight in ways that leave the system brittle.—
Christer Holloman,
Forbes.com,
8 Sep. 2025
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The journey is comfortable, with reserved seats, onboard restrooms, and no worries about parking or crowded overlooks.—
Taryn White,
Travel + Leisure,
9 Sep. 2025
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Garnish with reserved fennel fronds.—
Elizabeth Fogarty,
Better Homes & Gardens,
8 Sep. 2025
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Democrats saw an opportunity to portray her as selfish and heartless, willing to manipulate the legal system at the expense of grieving children.—
Ruth Marcus,
New Yorker,
18 Aug. 2025
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The first four episodes of season 2 crept onto Netflix earlier this month, throwing our favorite heartless teenager (played by Jenna Ortega) headfirst into a new mystery, complete with secret experiments, ravenous zombies, and a spat of unsettling bird murders.—
Allison DeGrushe Published,
EW.com,
15 Aug. 2025
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Reached by phone, the father comes off as a cold, uncaring man, and Pacino portrays him with chilling aloofness.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
2 Sep. 2025
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For many years, Tariffs were allowed to be used against us by our uncaring and unwise Politicians.—
Brady Knox,
The Washington Examiner,
30 Aug. 2025
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The film’s only real villain is Al Pacino, doing a Colonel Sanders accent as Richard’s father M.L. Hall, whose pitiless rigidity stands in for capitalism as a whole.—
Katie Rife,
IndieWire,
2 Sep. 2025
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Each failure rekindled the gravitational pull of an existential, pitiless struggle.—
Hussein Agha,
New Yorker,
22 Aug. 2025
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“Coldhearted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/coldhearted. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.
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