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
Over the course of the following nine episodes, however, Carr evolved into a coldhearted killer.
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Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 4 Dec. 2025
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
Cephus ducks the Vietnam draft and does time in prison, then reluctantly skips town and heads north, to the coldhearted streets of New York.
—The New Yorker, 14 June 2024
Who could blame her for wondering why, and for seeking out literally any explanation besides coldhearted rejection?
—Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Mar. 2024
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Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 4 Dec. 2025
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
Cephus ducks the Vietnam draft and does time in prison, then reluctantly skips town and heads north, to the coldhearted streets of New York.
—The New Yorker, 14 June 2024
Who could blame her for wondering why, and for seeking out literally any explanation besides coldhearted rejection?
—Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Mar. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for coldhearted
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Levine’s missive comes amid an icy relationship with Hosseini, which has soured since the collapse of former University of Michigan President Santa Ono’s candidacy for the UF presidency.—
Garrett Shanley,
Miami Herald,
18 June 2026
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Earth-impacting shrapnel from those primordial upheavals may have helped seed our planet with the precursors for life, delivering water and organic compounds from the dark, icy depths of the outer solar system.—
Lee Billings,
Scientific American,
18 June 2026
Adjective
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The production had no money, no stars and was going to shoot in a frigid Canadian forest.—
Seth Abramovitch,
HollywoodReporter,
17 June 2026
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Chicago is a great pick for a city break, even during its famously frigid winters.—
Skye Sherman,
Travel + Leisure,
11 June 2026
Adjective
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The perk here is that the material holds up to cold weather by stretching and expanding without breaking, requiring fewer repairs and resource use.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
17 June 2026
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But there are ways of assessing it with cold hard figures, most notably the FIFA world rankings, which began in the 1990s as a way to assess the strength of international teams.—
Thom Harris,
New York Times,
16 June 2026
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However, the brittle plastic breaks easily and is less durable than other trays.—
BestReviews,
Chicago Tribune,
17 June 2026
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Another option is to treat the recent analysis as technical confirmation that the current system is brittle and inequitable, and use that to argue for a deeper change.—
David Sathuluri,
Mercury News,
16 June 2026
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In her early public appearances, she was often seen with her head bowed and her gaze upward, a posture that, alongside her soft-spoken demeanor, led the British press to characterize her as timid and reserved.—
Elle Meier,
InStyle,
13 June 2026
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Also not helping matters is Center Rep’s rather reserved staging of the show.—
Charles Lewis III,
Mercury News,
12 June 2026
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In contrast, Dessalines is typically described as violent, unthinking, emotional and heartless.—
Julia Gaffield,
The Conversation,
15 June 2026
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The script, by Ed Solomon, treats the Sklar siblings as cardboard grotesques—heartless, talentless, united in their loathing of a father who loathes them right back.—
Justin Chang,
New Yorker,
3 Apr. 2026
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This was not caused by an uncaring community, but by an overwhelming response delivered in a language and through customs different from those on full display at Latin Night.—
Rev. José Rodriguez,
The Orlando Sentinel,
12 June 2026
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Or even better, use self-checkout to avoid the evil, uncaring cashier or bag person.—
Matt Reigle OutKick,
FOXNews.com,
10 June 2026
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Nilsson’s depiction of bodies past their prime conjures not the pitiless naturalism of Joan Semmel or Alice Neel, but something friskier, more delighted.—
Jeremy Lybarger,
Artforum,
2 June 2026
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As with the others, the pitiless treatment only ends when they’re slaughtered.—
Krista Kafer,
Denver Post,
18 May 2026
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“Coldhearted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/coldhearted. Accessed 19 Jun. 2026.
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