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Recent Examples of hard-hearted Yet the very readiness with which the hard-hearted General Tilney believes this account suggests that he is used to reliable reports of other people’s wealth. Literary Hub, 10 Sep. 2025 That makes perfect sense to all but the closed-minded or hard-hearted. Jim Newton, Mercury News, 27 June 2025 And each registered the other’s contention with the hard-hearted energy of her own physical craving. Jim Shepard, New Yorker, 8 June 2025 Joel, a hard-hearted smuggler, and Ellie, a headstrong teenager immune to the fungal pandemic that’s decimated the planet. Adam B. Vary, Variety, 5 Mar. 2025 Linda finds her own therapist (Conan O’Brien) insufferably hard-hearted; one of her own patients (Danielle Macdonald) gets ignored in a moment of crisis; a man named James (A$AP Rocky), the super at the motel, befriends her but gets little to show for it but insult and injury. Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 7 Feb. 2025 The hard-hearted treatment of men is on full display throughout Cecot. David Culver, CNN, 6 Nov. 2024 In the face of such terror, even hard-hearted Sam has to crumble. Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 27 June 2024 Technically Shaw is a mercenary, but not a cynical or hard-hearted one. Tom Gliatto, Peoplemag, 11 Feb. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hard-hearted
Adjective
  • Those hoping to snatch a home in this busy period faced limited options on the market, as the country’s developers had chronically underbuilt compared to demand in the years following the subprime mortgage crisis, leading to ruthless bidding wars and climbing home values.
    Giulia Carbonaro, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Hedda orchestrates a ruthless game of manipulation, where lust, jealousy and betrayal collide.
    Patrick Hipes, Deadline, 21 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Just clean, merciless, fundamental football.
    Andrew Callahan, Boston Herald, 19 Oct. 2025
  • Chat members were merciless in their rhetoric against fellow Young Republicans in competing factions of the organization.
    Matthew Kelly, Kansas City Star, 15 Oct. 2025

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“Hard-hearted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hard-hearted. Accessed 28 Oct. 2025.

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