How to Use coldhearted in a Sentence

coldhearted

adjective
  • People are criticizing the government's coldhearted plans to stop funding programs for the poor.
  • Wohlleben used to be a coldhearted butcher of trees and forests.
    Diàna Markosian, Smithsonian, 22 Feb. 2018
  • Its wry tone and story, about a swaggering, coldhearted cockney Lothario who works as a chauffeur for the rich, appealed to Mr. Gilbert.
    Harrison Smith, Washington Post, 27 Feb. 2018
  • Yet both call their coldhearted strikeout pitch a slider.
    Patrick Saunders, The Denver Post, 21 Apr. 2017
  • To many, the action confirmed a view of Hoover as coldhearted and detached from reality.
    Terence McArdle, Washington Post, 28 July 2017
  • Today is one of those times a sensible assessment of risk looks more coldhearted than clear-eyed.
    James MacKintosh, WSJ, 5 June 2017
  • Seasonal joy comes to a screeching halt when a coldhearted woman tries to sell her hometown’s land, but the love and cheer of the small town may ultimately change her heart and her mind.
    Washington Post, 21 Nov. 2020
  • Two dimwits concoct a scheme to prevent their friend from marrying a coldhearted and conniving woman.
    Ed Stockly, Los Angeles Times, 2 Apr. 2021
  • And the team’s paring of its scouting staff, while perhaps a bit coldhearted, was prompted by a belief that the grizzled road warrior with a radar gun in his hand and a cigar clenched between his teeth has become an anachronism.
    Steven Goldman, Slate Magazine, 27 Oct. 2017
  • And if Roe is indeed overturned, God bless our country that can make such a terrible, coldhearted mistake and yet, half a century later, redress it, right it, turn it around.
    Peggy Noonan, WSJ, 5 May 2022
  • The remaining members of the Marlins, left behind in the wake of a coldhearted sell-off, managed only one hit against Yankees starter Luis Severino, who profited from the mismatch and improved to 3-1.
    David Waldstein, New York Times, 16 Apr. 2018
  • Parton plays a guardian angel trying to find the goodness in a businesswoman (Christine Baranski) who’s three times more coldhearted than Jolene.
    Star Tribune, 20 Nov. 2020
  • If anything, Prime Minister Abe is just a coldhearted realist.
    Jon Emont, WSJ, 4 Oct. 2018
  • But sometimes, modern science interrupts that story with coldhearted facts.
    Dave McIntyre, Washington Post, 7 July 2022
  • Only a coldhearted road tripper heading southeast toward Indio on I-10 would pass Shields’s roadside curiosity without tasting the granddaddy of all date shakes.
    Jennifer Emerling, National Geographic, 6 Aug. 2019
  • In particular, experts point to the amygdala—a part of the limbic system—as a physiological culprit for coldhearted or violent behavior.
    Barbara Bradley Hagerty, The Atlantic, 16 May 2017
  • Biden will face new accusations of betraying America's helpers, and of putting coldhearted judgments of national interest ahead of basic humanity.
    Stephen Collinson, CNN, 18 Aug. 2021
  • There are ambitious Black politicians, avaricious developers and coldhearted investment bankers.
    Rodney Ho, ajc, 7 Nov. 2021

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