black-hearted
Americanadjective
Other Word Forms
- black-heartedly adverb
- black-heartedness noun
Etymology
Origin of black-hearted
First recorded in 1840–50
Example Sentences
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Just as Crane shifted from war reportage to black-hearted poems, Auster has pivoted from the noir-inspired “New York Trilogy” to abstract, Beckett-esque works like “Travels in the Scriptorium.”
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 21, 2021
To play the father, the Safdies cast Ronald Bronstein, who was known for directing an intimate, black-hearted 2007 drama called “Frownland.”
From The New Yorker • Dec. 9, 2019
There are several soldiers of various rank, led with gravitas by Graham Winton as goodly Prince Don Pedro and Don John, his scheming, black-hearted brother.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 20, 2013
In the middle of it all stood Hagman's black-hearted JR Ewing - grinning wickedly in a broad cowboy hat and boots, plotting how to cheat his business competitors and cheat on his wife.
From The Guardian • Nov. 24, 2012
If, the winter of seventy-three, Johnny Tremain had a romantic attachment to anyone, it was to that black haired and, as far as he knew, black-hearted, bad-tempered, disagreeable, conceivable ‘cousin’ of his Miss Lavinia Lyte.
From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes
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