How to Use heartless in a Sentence

heartless

adjective
  • By a heartless, shortsighted owner who just doesn’t get it.
    Justice Delos Santos, The Mercury News, 27 Sep. 2024
  • Katzenberg bought a script called 3,000, a dark story about a softhearted prostitute and a heartless businessman.
    Jeanie Kasindorf, Vulture, 10 July 2024
  • From Lois and the boys’ discovery of Clark’s limp, heartless corpse to the scream Jordan released when Lex crushed that heart under his boot, there was no shortage of drama.
    Andy Swift, TVLine, 7 Oct. 2024
  • But the fact that this ever happened drove the left to cry Trump's a heartless guy.
    Fox News, 26 July 2018
  • What kind of heartless robot wouldn’t care any how the teams around here do?
    Gregg Doyel, Indianapolis Star, 11 Apr. 2018
  • Trump, of course, has said all manner of heartless things.
    Laura McGann, Vox, 24 June 2018
  • The contrast between the warm tone of the music and the lyrics full of heartless words was both shocking and amusing.
    Billboard Japan, Billboard, 14 June 2022
  • Still, the question remains: How could Luyendyk have been so heartless?
    Amy Kaufman, latimes.com, 9 Mar. 2018
  • The heartless old thing was killed when someone thrust an icicle through her heart.
    Sandra Dallas, The Denver Post, 23 Feb. 2020
  • Maybe that’s why the new version feels just a little more hollow and heartless.
    Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 21 June 2017
  • And part of the problem with the heartless felons is people were petrified of them and wouldn’t talk to police.
    Laura Johnston, cleveland, 8 Dec. 2022
  • In 1997, outrage greeted what seemed to be her heartless response to the death of Princess Diana in a Paris car crash.
    Los Angeles Times, 15 Sep. 2022
  • Dear Hurt and Confused: What your husband did to you was heartless and cruel.
    cleveland, 25 Nov. 2021
  • All of this was predictable, which doesn’t make the NFL a heartless, greedy monster for trying to play a season.
    Star Tribune, 5 Oct. 2020
  • This type of heartless act has the potential of ruining years of progress.
    Byron McCauley, Cincinnati.com, 11 Dec. 2017
  • This stunt may have been designed to show up the islanders as heartless liberals who talk a good game but don’t walk the walk.
    Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 22 Jan. 2024
  • If the world sometimes seems cold and heartless, filled with animus and divide, take heart.
    Ken Roberts, Forbes, 16 July 2022
  • In his best sketch, Glover was the heartless and inept attorney for Jurassic Park.
    Hal Boedeker, OrlandoSentinel.com, 6 May 2018
  • The heartless street reveals itself as a brimful dungeon to those who look.
    Jay Pilgreen, Kansas City Star, 12 Feb. 2024
  • But dozens of readers agreed with you that my reaction seemed heartless.
    Amy Dickinson, The Mercury News, 15 Mar. 2017
  • State health care advocates labeled the Senate plan as heartless, the same way the House bill passed last month was received.
    Bill Dentzer, idahostatesman, 22 June 2017
  • Next time your woke friends try to tell you Kevin de León is some heartless anti-homeless monster, tell them to drive up to Cow Town.
    Los Angeles Times, 11 July 2022
  • So, the fact that Duy continues to pressure her to have more children seems nothing short of heartless.
    Jodi Walker, EW.com, 18 Oct. 2021
  • The calculus may be heartless but the results are lovely.
    Michael J. Lewis, WSJ, 21 July 2021
  • It’s run by Dreykov (Ray Winstone), a heartless man who has developed a way to control free will.
    Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 30 June 2021
  • And while these creatures have been painted as heartless predators on the hunt for human blood (thanks, Jaws), that couldn't be further from the truth.
    Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 28 Mar. 2021
  • Written and directed by J. Blakeson, the film is in love with its heartless heroine, loath to let her out of the camera’s sight.
    Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 26 Feb. 2021
  • But demanding a present back in the face of a death is heartless, petty and cruel, none of which etiquette condones.
    Jacobina Martin, Washington Post, 5 Aug. 2022
  • That someone could be so heartless and cruel is deplorable.
    Abigail Van Buren, Twin Cities, 7 Oct. 2019
  • The pranks that go viral now, compared to the ones popular on YouTube and Vine five years ago, aren't so blatantly heartless.
    NBC News, 5 Feb. 2022

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