How do you use Heartless in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like hardhearted or flinty, plus the exact meaning.
Heartless meaning
- Without feeling, emotion, or concern for others; uncaring; cruel.
- Without a physical heart.
- Listless, unenthusiastic.
Synonyms of Heartless
Using Heartless
- The main meaning on this page is: Without feeling, emotion, or concern for others; uncaring; cruel. | Without a physical heart. | Listless, unenthusiastic.
- Useful related words include: hardhearted, flinty, granitic, obdurate.
- In the example corpus, heartless often appears in combinations such as: and heartless, heartless and, as heartless.
Context around Heartless
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.2 words
- Position in the sentence: 5 start, 11 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Heartless
- In this selection, "heartless" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 25.2 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, incredibly, read, savage, governor, property and act stand out and add context to how "heartless" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include only a heartless governor would and a heartless property tycoon. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "heartless" sits close to words such as afterthought, avatars and basingstoke, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with heartless
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The banner read: "Heartless, passionless, leaderless. (6 words)
With the current PPP crop, it has become heartless and dehumanizing. (11 words)
A third person wrote: "Wow that's incredibly heartless and cruel of him. (13 words)
Referring to claims that the Prince of Wales secured a flight to Balmoral without Harry when the Queen was dying, the translation cited the source as saying: 'It was heartless to deny him the chance to go to Scotland to say goodbye to his grandmother. (45 words)
She is the most prolific UK child-killer of modern times – and it has now been confirmed that heartless will spend the rest of her life in prison for murdering seven babies in her care and attempting to kill six more. (41 words)
A heartless property tycoon quipped 'it's only business' after snatching away a couple's dream home to sell it for an extra £75,000 - leaving a decorated Royal Navy hero so depressed he took his own life. (38 words)
Example sentences (20)
According to him, only a “heartless governor” would hold onto money despite hungry schoolchildren and roads and clinics in a state of disrepair.
According to him, only a “heartless governor” would hold onto money despite hungry schoolchildren, and roads and clinics in a state of disrepair.
A heartless property tycoon quipped 'it's only business' after snatching away a couple's dream home to sell it for an extra £75,000 - leaving a decorated Royal Navy hero so depressed he took his own life.
A third person wrote: "Wow that's incredibly heartless and cruel of him.
Detective Inspector Emma Hulston, from Greater Manchester Police’s Major Incident Team, said: “To have left Kerry alone and without seeking medical attention for her was a heartless act.
Devoted Keith is not heartless, but says having one less person in the house would make the festive period cheaper as he tried to give his disabled son a magical Christmas.
Heartless criminals have stolen $100,000 from a 90-year-old grandmother in a cruel computer scam.
He is instantly painted as a heartless, ruthless leader with no hesitation in getting what he wants.
May the dead enjoy blissful rest, and may the heartless murderers never know peace in life and in death.
Members of the public gallery gave a sigh of relief and clapped as heartless McVey was taken down to start his prison sentence.
Players assumed her role through Kingdom Hearts HD 2.8 Final Chapter Prologuewhere her solitary journey through darkness felt all the more harrowing due to unrelenting waves of heartless.
Referring to claims that the Prince of Wales secured a flight to Balmoral without Harry when the Queen was dying, the translation cited the source as saying: 'It was heartless to deny him the chance to go to Scotland to say goodbye to his grandmother.
She is the most prolific UK child-killer of modern times – and it has now been confirmed that heartless will spend the rest of her life in prison for murdering seven babies in her care and attempting to kill six more.
She said: “There was absolutely nothing in the autumn statement to provide relief for this council or local authorities who have faced a decade of heartless central government austerity, or any real-world financial help for struggling families.
The banner read: "Heartless, passionless, leaderless.
There’s a ripple effect, and to say, “Don’t do the crime if you can’t do the time,” is a glib and heartless way to look at how a justice system should operate.
This attitude, combined with the realization that the people he saves don't deserve it, could transform Silver Surfer into a heartless villain.
This may all sound cold and heartless on the notion of a ‘Palestinian identity’ but it remains the historical truth.
This time around, only the most savage, heartless twist of fate can prevent McLean from making it to a major finals at last.
With the current PPP crop, it has become heartless and dehumanizing.
Common combinations with heartless
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- and heartless 17×
- heartless and 14×
- as heartless 7×
- the heartless 5×
- heartless monster 4×
- heartless criminals 3×
- of heartless 3×
- by heartless 3×
- heartless in 3×
- only heartless 2×