HEARTLESSNESS Synonyms: 63 Similar and Opposite Words

heartlessness

noun

as in cruelty

disposition to willfully inflict pain and suffering on others the gung ho heartlessness with which the secret police tortured prisoners was beyond belief

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Recent Examples of heartlessness These young graduates start out naive about the heartlessness of the corporate world and harbor illusory hopes for success in unforgiving professions. —

George Packer, The Atlantic, 16 Mar. 2026 The lives of the two children in the story, aged fourteen and four, are portrayed as being as fleeting as the fireflies, and the story is an unsentimental and unflinching account with moments of both tenderness and heartlessness. —

Ginny Tapley Takemori september 4, Literary Hub, 4 Sep. 2025

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Noun

To make the musical masterpiece of his dreams, Lestat will have to break on through his shell of witty cruelty and hope an authentic soul remains intact beneath it.

— Judy Berman, Time, 2 June 2026
She was arrested at a hotel near the barn and booked at the Clark County Juvenile Hall on 12 counts of animal cruelty, including intentionally aiming or torturing a horse, as well as three counts of malicious destruction of property.

— Emily Mae Czachor, CBS News, 1 June 2026