Hard-heartedness
noun
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 Alternative form of hardheartedness. alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable
"It was precisely the hard-heartedness of these economic doctrines that the nineteenth-century English novelist Charles Dickens had satirized in Hard Times."
Example
More examples"It was precisely the hard-heartedness of these economic doctrines that the nineteenth-century English novelist Charles Dickens had satirized in Hard Times."
Etymology
From hard-hearted + -ness.
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