"cruel-hearted" meaning in English

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          "word": "cruel-heartedly"
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          "word": "cruel-heartedness"
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        {
          "ref": "1868 November 14, “The Poet’s Wife”, in Harper’s Weekly. A Journal of Civilization., volume XII, number 620, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, page 722, column 1",
          "text": "Leave hold of my hand. I’m not crying: / And if ever I were, John, what then? / Would my tears not prove you had acted / Like the cruelest-hearted of men?",
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        },
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          "ref": "1895 July 4, “Millionaire Senator. Senator Wm. Stewart, of Nevada, Is in It to Swim. Stewart in Kentucky. He Is Interviewed on Silver—Measures and Men—He Talks Out in Meeting—A Brai[n]y Man Who Made Money.”, in Press and Carolinian, volume 26, number 27, Hickory, N.C., page 6, column 2",
          "text": "Said he [William M. Stewart]: “John Sherman is the wickedest man ever born of woman, and Grover Cleveland is the coldest and cruelest-hearted human of this age. Sherman went to London in 1867 and deliberately sold the United States out to the Rothschilds, and has been their agent ever since. He is the brains of the Cleveland Administration, with Carlisle as the intermediary between him and the President.[…]”",
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          "ref": "1909 October 26, “Can You Beat This”, in The Richmond Palladium and Sun-Telegram, volume XXXIV, number 351, Richmond, Ind., page seven, column 5",
          "text": "Although he provided his wife with a tent for a home during the winter, and the mud floor was saoked most of the time, yet the cruelest-hearted man in Wayne county censured his wife because she did not keep their abade in good condition.",
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          "ref": "1952 April 13, William McDonald, “Today ‘Barnes Boys’ Are Legion—Positivism Of Mister Elly Helped Educator Build One Of South’s Finest Boys’ Schools”, in The Montgomery Advertiser, 124th year, number 15, Montgomery, Ala., page ten—C, column 3",
          "text": "Mothers descended en masse on the school, beseeching Mr. Elly to release their boys from peril. “I told them that their boys were free to leave, but that an unexcused absence would be marked against them. They called me the cruelest-hearted man they had ever known.”",
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          "ref": "1992, Julie Garwood, The Secret, page 132",
          "text": "She's cruel-hearted, Judith. Every chance she gets, she makes horrid remarks about the pain I'm going to have to endure.",
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      "glosses": [
        "Cruel; lacking kindness and compassion."
      ],
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          "compassion",
          "compassion"
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  "word": "cruel-hearted"
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    {
      "form": "most cruel-hearted",
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          "ref": "1868 November 14, “The Poet’s Wife”, in Harper’s Weekly. A Journal of Civilization., volume XII, number 620, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, page 722, column 1",
          "text": "Leave hold of my hand. I’m not crying: / And if ever I were, John, what then? / Would my tears not prove you had acted / Like the cruelest-hearted of men?",
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          "text": "Said he [William M. Stewart]: “John Sherman is the wickedest man ever born of woman, and Grover Cleveland is the coldest and cruelest-hearted human of this age. Sherman went to London in 1867 and deliberately sold the United States out to the Rothschilds, and has been their agent ever since. He is the brains of the Cleveland Administration, with Carlisle as the intermediary between him and the President.[…]”",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1952 April 13, William McDonald, “Today ‘Barnes Boys’ Are Legion—Positivism Of Mister Elly Helped Educator Build One Of South’s Finest Boys’ Schools”, in The Montgomery Advertiser, 124th year, number 15, Montgomery, Ala., page ten—C, column 3",
          "text": "Mothers descended en masse on the school, beseeching Mr. Elly to release their boys from peril. “I told them that their boys were free to leave, but that an unexcused absence would be marked against them. They called me the cruelest-hearted man they had ever known.”",
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        },
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        }
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        "Cruel; lacking kindness and compassion."
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