Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for stonyhearted
Adjective
  • As a member of a crew that robs banks, Mr. Blonde is the most ruthless.
    James Brizuela, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 July 2025
  • As they’re hunted by a ruthless drug gang led by the menacing Power (Aidan Gillen), their fight for survival becomes a journey of redemption.
    Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 2 July 2025
Adjective
  • While Charlie Brown played things safe, Snoopy lived an exuberant life in his imagination, casting himself as a frustrated novelist, gleeful dancer, merciless attorney and even a prolific flying ace in a World War I Sopwith Camel.
    Chris Carra, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 June 2025
  • Players have openly voiced their struggles with its deep rough, lightning-fast greens, and merciless bunkers.
    Devlina Sarkar, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 June 2025
Adjective
  • Sandoval has received some pay bumps, including a temporary $10,000-a-year bonus for Hawaii special education teachers designed to alleviate shortages in that and other hard-to-staff areas.
    Alia Wong, USA TODAY, 14 Feb. 2023
  • Whether those numbers are an overstatement, or possibly an understatement, is hard to say.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2023
Adjective
  • And most of those business people tend to have rather stony, cold, dead eyes.
    Andrew Tobias, Vulture, 7 July 2025
  • The reef is home to 45 species of stony corals, according to the Florida Department of Environmental Protection, and 6,000 species of marine line total.
    Bill Kearney, Sun Sentinel, 3 July 2025
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“Stonyhearted.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stonyhearted. Accessed 13 Jul. 2025.

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