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heartlessly en · ADV

Etymology

Etymology tree English heartless Middle English -ly English -ly English heartlessly From heartless + -ly.

Meanings

1. In a heartless manner.
   • It is the habit of heartlessly pecking at these that shows a soul that is blasé. Of late, for example, it has been a fashion with a small minority of British writers to assert their culture by a very supercilious demeanour towards an idea which ought, beyond all others, to be sacred in this island—the idea of Liberty. 1860 May, [David Masson], “Three Vices of Current Literature”, in David Masson, editor, Macmillan’s Magazine, volume II, number 7, Cambridge: Macmillan and Co. […], →OCLC, page 11, column 2:
   • As you recover from Junkspace, Junkspace recovers from you: between 2 and 5 a.m., yet another population, this one heartlessly casual and appreciably darker, is mopping, hoovering, sweeping, toweling, resupplying. 2014, Jen Jack Gieseking, William Mangold, Cindi Katz, The People, Place, and Space Reader, →ISBN, page 24:

Forms

Translations (8)

pl bezdusznie (in a heartless manner) · sk bezcitne (in a heartless manner) · fr cruellement (in a heartless manner) · el άκαρδα (in a heartless manner) · fr sans cœur (in a heartless manner) · fi sydämettömästi (in a heartless manner) · mk бездушно (in a heartless manner) · el άπονα (in a heartless manner)