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Recent Examples of heartless 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 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 The heartless subway mugger who slashed and badly wounded a woman on an empty Manhattan train car will stay locked up following his arrest late last week. Nicholas Williams, New York Daily News, 12 Aug. 2025 All of that could be achieved, in a bipartisan fashion, without this massive and heartless overreach — and without these crushing deficits. Johnny Olszewski, Baltimore Sun, 9 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for heartless
Recent Examples of Synonyms for heartless
Adjective
  • Zimmer also received an Emmy nod for her portrayal of ruthless executive Quinn King on Unreal (2015–2018).
    Allison DeGrushe, Entertainment Weekly, 17 Oct. 2025
  • And in short stories and doorstops, her attention is ruthless and unflinching.
    Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 16 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • In Dahl’s original story, the Muggle-Wumps are clever and resourceful, using their smarts to turn the tables on their cruel captors.
    Jane LaCroix, PEOPLE, 18 Oct. 2025
  • On the page, these serve to paint him in a monstrous light following his abandonment by his egotistical and cruel creator, Victor Frankenstein (Oscar Isaac).
    Megan McCluskey, Time, 17 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • 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
  • Next is 4-2 Mississippi State at home, the closest thing to a reprieve left on this merciless schedule.
    Alex Kirshner, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • For more than 40 years, the person responsible for the brutal rape and murder of a 16-year-old girl on Long Island has eluded capture.
    Lauren del Valle, CNN Money, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Behind him, officials key to his brutal rule made a mass exodus, virtually undetected.
    Danny Makki, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Make people laugh and help people out and just keep that vicious cycle of fun going.
    Matt Grobar, Deadline, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Some beaches along the East Coast might no longer exist after a vicious storm threatening significant coastal flooding passes through the area this weekend, AccuWeather warned in an email to reporters on Thursday.
    Anna Skinner, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • The ensuing carnage was swift and savage.
    Paul Solotaroff, Rolling Stone, 12 Oct. 2025
  • Near the end of Robert Altman’s savage showbiz satire, Roberts appears briefly as herself, playing a part in a movie-within-a-movie about a woman on death row.
    Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 10 Oct. 2025

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“Heartless.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/heartless. Accessed 19 Oct. 2025.

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