a heartless boss who would fire people for missing work, even if they were sick as a dog
a heartless enemy that takes no prisoners
Recent Examples on the WebYour sister’s behavior all these years has been relentless and heartless.—Jeanne Phillips, The Mercury News, 21 Apr. 2024 For much of my adult life, economic policy in the United States followed a pattern: Democrats promised voters government largesse, and Republicans who objected were characterized as heartless bigots.—Kevin A. Hassett, National Review, 11 Apr. 2024 As Orwell’s latest biographer, D. J. Taylor, has pointed out in Orwell: The New Life, Orwell’s novels before Animal Farm followed a common template of a sensitive young person going up against a heartless society, destined to lose.—Stephen Metcalf, The Atlantic, 5 Apr. 2024 My office will not stand for such heartless and unscrupulous business practices.—Jose R. Gonzalez, The Arizona Republic, 7 Mar. 2024 People who’d never accuse a dog foster to their face of being heartless apparently have no problem sending such messages on Instagram.—Caroline Mimbs Nyce, The Atlantic, 28 Mar. 2024 Most media reports in 2015 painted Mukerjea as a heartless woman willing to sacrifice her emotions for the sake of power and money.—Sweta Kaushal, Forbes, 24 Feb. 2024 The boys almost immediately encounter heartless human smugglers, who don’t even hit the brakes to slow down when a migrant is accidentally thrown from the back of a speeding, overloaded pickup truck.—Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post, 20 Feb. 2024 Bill Murray stars as heartless TV exec Frank Cross, who is visited by three ghosts on Christmas Eve to show him the error of his wicked ways.—Declan Gallagher, EW.com, 11 Jan. 2024
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