(a.) Destitute of feeling or affection; unsympathetic; cruel.
Example Sentences:
(1) It may be just as well that Hugh Grant fervently believes a film succeeds on its qualities, not on publicity about its stars, because he did his tabloid reputation as a heartless, feather-brained Lothario immense harm in the process of delivering damning testimony on phone-hacking to the Leveson inquiry on Monday.
(2) Thrones, perhaps struggling under the weight of its monolithic pop culture status, or simply heartlessly breathtaking to begin with, really isn’t about anything anymore.
(3) He has also declared that he will deport 11 million illegal immigrants, which opponents say is both heartless and impractical.
(4) It isn't only heartless, it puts at risk all the time, effort, care and money that has been spent on the children in the years before.
(5) The dogma that keeps people heartlessly alive is not religious but entirely secular: it is the fear of lawyers and not the fear of God which runs health policy today.
(6) Now that the false claims against Planned Parenthood have fallen apart, politicians are heartlessly scrambling to attack women’s access to health care however they can.
(7) The political impasses and economic shocks in our societies, and the irreparably damaged environment, corroborate the bleakest views of 19th-century critics who condemned modern capitalism as a heartless machinery for economic growth, or the enrichment of the few, which works against such fundamentally human aspirations as stability, community and a better future.
(8) The disaster has led to a surge of anger in Turkey , fuelled by what many saw as a heartless response from the government.
(9) Theirs is a coalition of the last stand against the heartless armies of the EU.
(10) So even from a heartless, self-interested economic point of view, it is perverse to be locking up at prohibitive expense people who have a lot to contribute to Australia.
(11) 4.56am GMT There is a question now asking whether Malaysian officials had been "heartless."
(12) When Missouri prosecutors said they had no relevant state law to prosecute Drew and her admittedly heartless helpers in this scheme, a federal prosecutor in Los Angeles hauled Drew there to face charges under the CFAA.
(13) He made a rare intervention to remind the Conservatives that they lose when they look heartless, that there is a silent phenomenon of " lace curtain poverty " in Britain and that exorbitant energy prices have left many choosing between eating and heating their homes.
(14) Heartless celebration under attack As goal celebrations go, few have come across in such poor taste as Santiago Silva's last week for Vélez Sársfield.
(15) The broadcaster and former footballer Gary Lineker tweeted that the reception by some had been “hideously racist and utterly heartless”.
(16) The middle classes of Britain will rally round their sick family member and pitch in financially rather than see their loved one risk their lives by enduring such heartless treatment from the Department of Work and Pensions.
(17) To a cynic, that might read like a heartless thought.
(18) Gary Lineker (@GaryLineker) The treatment by some towards these young refugees is hideously racist and utterly heartless.
(19) "The modern City is in many ways a cruel, heartless place," Kynaston observes, "and its occupants work such cripplingly long hours that inevitably they lack much of the roundedness of earlier generations."
(20) Had I dreamed up a plot of such cruel folly and heartlessness as May has provided, it would have been dismissed as too far-fetched, even propagandist.
Ruthless
Definition:
(a.) Having no ruth; cruel; pitiless.
Example Sentences:
(1) AB InBev has cut costs ruthlessly as it has bought up companies around the world, including Anheuser-Busch, the brewer of US beer Budweiser.
(2) As Greece pleads with its eurozone creditors for more time in meeting its fiscal adjustment targets, Dombrovskis is a fierce champion of surgical austerity applied quickly and ruthlessly.
(3) Rather than ruthlessly efficient, I have found them sweet and a bit hopeless."
(4) This thread ran through his later writings, which focused particularly on questions of the transformation of work and working time, envisaging the possibility that the productivity gains made possible by capitalism could be used to enhance individual and social life, rather than intensifying ruthless economic competition and social division.
(5) "Sometimes a handshake is just a handshake, but when the leader of the free world shakes the bloody hand of a ruthless dictator like Raúl Castro , it becomes a propaganda coup for the tyrant," said Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, the Republican Congress member in Florida, told the US secretary of state, John Kerry.
(6) But Hilton insists critics are wrong to see the group as ruthless youngsters who meet purely to further their own careers.
(7) This is how powerful a hold it has over them.” Mossino, who works with refugees and asylum seekers as well as victims of trafficking, says that in the past decade the trade in Nigerian women has become a hugely profitable and ruthless criminal industry, controlled largely by Nigerian gangs that took root in Italy in the 1980s.
(8) On 12 September 1980, the head of the military, Kenan Evren, sent tanks rolling through the streets of the Turkish capital and installed a ruthless military government.
(9) The "consultation" and "informed consent" the reports insist must take place before the project goes ahead are a sick joke in a region in which dissent is ruthlessly crushed and people are imprisoned and tortured simply for speaking their own language.
(10) She is also waiting to hear if she has won a second Olivier award, this time for her role as the ruthless Hollywood agent in The Little Dog Laughed, the play that transferred from Broadway to the West End last year.
(11) A boss on some astronomic pay packet may be held back by shame from paying his cleaners too little relative to that, but emotion will not get in the way of ruthlessness if the process all takes place behind the veil of some corporate contract.
(12) "What is clear is that they are as ruthless as any Islamist group or terrorists anywhere in the world," said Antony Goldman, a west Africa risk analyst at London-based PM Consulting.
(13) The often confusing circumstances that led to their courts martial and the ruthlessness of their punishments only fully came to light with the publication in 1989 of Julian Putkowski and Julian Sykes's history Shot at Dawn .
(14) If there was reason to be worried following five successive defeats, their worst run of the century, they showed no sign of panic during a ruthless attacking performance which guarantees they will spend Christmas in the top six.
(15) She was ambitious, and Colonel Gaddafi has always promoted ruthless people.
(16) Every couple of years, evidence emerges to underline the unparalleled nature of the state onslaught and ruthless rule-breaking to overcome resistance in the mining communities, bought at a cost of £37bn in today's prices .
(17) The footage underscores the ruthlessness of fighting in Pakistan's border areas, where the army has also faced allegations of massacres.
(18) Philip French championed Boyle's career from the outset, describing his debut feature film, Shallow Grave , as "a good piece of storytelling... Hitchcock would have admired its ruthlessness and cruel humour."
(19) In the past decade, European migration was used as a sort of 21st-century incomes policy in Britain as employers ruthlessly exploited migrant labour to hold down wages – which have since been cut in real terms for four years in a row as a result of the crisis.
(20) But we can all probably do without Fifa's "fair play in marketing" lectures, which clothe commercial ruthlessness in the language of sporting decency, apparently oblivious to the impression given by wallpapering every stadium with signs that push BP or declare "We proudly accept only Visa".