Cruel-heartedness

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The quality of being cruel-hearted; lack of compassion and kindness. uncountable

    "More tragical and more inscrutably mysterious than any mystic sight, human or machine, throughout the factory, was the strange innocence of cruel-heartedness in this usage-hardened boy."

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"More tragical and more inscrutably mysterious than any mystic sight, human or machine, throughout the factory, was the strange innocence of cruel-heartedness in this usage-hardened boy."

Etymology

From cruel-hearted + -ness.

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