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Adjective
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To some observers, the incessant joking was the sort of heartless mirth that social media had been running on for decades.—
Lauren Michele Jackson,
The New Yorker,
27 Feb. 2025 -
The heartless stunt came weeks after the death of 57-year-old homeless woman Debrina Kawam, who police say was set on fire by 33-year-old Guatemalan migrant Sabastian Zapeta at the Coney Island-Stillwell Ave. station on Dec. 22.—
Elizabeth Keogh,
New York Daily News,
12 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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These were the years in which capitalism shed its pitiless light on the absurd British soul, with its deep striations of caste and station, its postcolonial taint, most of all its perverted emotional core, full of love and loathing for its own extremes of domination and servitude.—
Rachel Cusk,
Harper's Magazine,
19 Feb. 2025
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Achyut Kumar plays Prabhu, a pitiless small-town businessman running for local office with the help of his right-hand enforcer, Malabari (Dileesh Pothan).—
Siddhant Adlakha,
Variety,
17 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Greed could refer to material attachment, jealousy bleeds into hatred, and delusion encompasses similar attitudes, like living a life ignorant to Buddha’s teachings or being dull and uncaring.—
Alex Abad-Santos,
Vox,
17 Feb. 2025
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His concern for his ill, homebound mother isn’t matched by his stern, uncaring father Hamit (Ercan Kesal), who spends all day elsewhere, perhaps with another woman.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
29 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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Linda finds her own therapist (Conan O’Brien) insufferably hard-hearted; one of her own patients (Danielle Macdonald) gets ignored in a moment of crisis; a man named James (A$AP Rocky), the super at the motel, befriends her but gets little to show for it but insult and injury.—
Richard Brody,
The New Yorker,
7 Feb. 2025
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The hard-hearted treatment of men is on full display throughout Cecot.—
David Culver,
CNN,
6 Nov. 2024
Adjective
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So much modern football is mechanical and unfeeling; Joao Felix is loose and breezy.—
Jack Lang,
The Athletic,
9 Feb. 2025
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Human failings amidst an unfeeling snowpocalypse make for some engaging scenes.—
Ars Technica,
Ars Technica,
22 Dec. 2024
Adjective
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Cephus ducks the Vietnam draft and does time in prison, then reluctantly skips town and heads north, to the coldhearted streets of New York.—
The New Yorker,
The New Yorker,
14 June 2024
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Harbottle also risks a ferret with her coldhearted approach of making customers pay for goods and services.—
Alice Burton,
Vulture,
14 Jan. 2024
Adjective
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Aromas of cranberries and mocha; brittle acidity and flavors that include brownies.—
Tom Mullen,
Forbes,
2 Mar. 2025
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SpaceX is experimenting with metallic tile designs, including one with active cooling, that might be less brittle than the ceramic tiles used elsewhere on the ship.—
Stephen Clark,
Ars Technica,
1 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Her makeup, too, was equally icy, with a metallic silvery-white shadow brushed under her brow as a highlight and dramatic black eyeliner winged all the way out to the outer corner of her brows, plus a pair of light blue-gray contacts enhanced by majorly fluttery, lush lashes.—
Kara Nesvig,
Allure,
9 Dec. 2024
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White cautioned those traveling north of Indianapolis this weekend, however, should be mindful of potentially snowier, icier road conditions.—
Christopher Cann,
The Indianapolis Star,
27 Nov. 2024
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“Kindless.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/kindless. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.
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