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.
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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.
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The New Yorker,
14 June 2024
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
See All Example Sentences for coldhearted
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
See All Example Sentences for coldhearted
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.
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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.
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That frigid January night, as police spent hours picking up pieces of her teeth and face off of the highway, there was no clear path forward in sight.
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Snow, wind and frigid temperatures could combine to increase demand beyond what the state’s utilities can supply.
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To prevent that, some operators maintain low oil flow rates, akin to dripping a faucet in freezing cold weather to avoid frozen pipes.
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Aging And The Long Game Of Leadership The conversation around aging often centers on biohackers seeking to lower their biological age through cold plunges, red light therapy, and peptides.
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Restore dry, brittle hair with this hydrating shampoo that more than 8,000 shoppers bought in the last month alone.
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Grass blades with frost on them are brittle and can be damaged by mowing.
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While Kafka is a bit more of a reserved personality, he’s been described as a coach who’s personable and can work with anyone.
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Even in recordings from the ’90s, Alfa displays a reserved but expressive personality, and a talent for fusing disparate sounds fluidly together.
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In contrast, Dessalines is typically described as violent, unthinking, emotional and heartless.
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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.
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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.
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Or even better, use self-checkout to avoid the evil, uncaring cashier or bag person.
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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.
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As with the others, the pitiless treatment only ends when they’re slaughtered.
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“Coldhearted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/coldhearted. Accessed 25 Jun. 2026.
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