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Antonyms for hard-heartedness
Grammar : Noun |
Spell : hahrd-hahr-tid |
Phonetic Transcription : ˈhɑrdˈhɑr tɪd |
Definition of hard-heartedness
- As in savagery : noun cruelty
- As in truculence : noun cruelty
- As in truculency : noun cruelty
- As in cruelty : noun brutality, harshness
- So the other nine had to pay for their hard-heartedness with their lives.
- Extract from : « The Chinese Fairy Book » by Various
- He considered his mother's misconduct a sufficient excuse for his own hard-heartedness.
- Extract from : « The Fortune of the Rougons » by Emile Zola
- One would think that would be enough of hard-heartedness, but it isn't.
- Extract from : « Mary Barton » by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
- She was even a little vexed at what she called Sylvester's "hard-heartedness."
- Extract from : « Tales of the Argonauts » by Bret Harte
- The folly of men, not their hard-heartedness, was the great cause of the world's poverty.
- Extract from : « Looking Backward » by Edward Bellamy
- Take notice of the doleful effects of hard-heartedness in the world.
- Extract from : « A Christian Directory (Volume 1 of 4) » by Richard Baxter
- She fetched a little sigh which might mean the weather or his hard-heartedness.
- Extract from : « The March Family Trilogy, Complete » by William Dean Howells
- That hard-heartedness of his is the enemy of his asceticism.
- Extract from : « The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Bk. 3 Pt. 2 » by Translated by Kisari Mohan Ganguli
- How has the glory of her sex fallen a victim to villany and to hard-heartedness!
- Extract from : « Clarissa Harlowe, Volume 9 (of 9) » by Samuel Richardson
- Hard-heartedness, as it is called, is an essential of the libertine's character.
- Extract from : « Clarissa, Volume 4 (of 9) » by Samuel Richardson
Synonyms for hard-heartedness
- animality
- barbarism
- barbarity
- bestiality
- bloodthirstiness
- brutality
- brutishness
- callousness
- coarseness
- coldness
- depravity
- despotism
- ferocity
- fiendishness
- fierceness
- hard-heartedness
- heartlessness
- inhumanity
- insensibility
- insensitiveness
- malice
- malignity
- masochism
- mercilessness
- murderousness
- persecution
- rancor
- ruthlessness
- sadism
- savageness
- savagery
- severity
- spite
- spitefulness
- torture
- truculence
- truculency
- unfeelingness
- unkindness
- venom
- viciousness
- wickedness
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