dark-hearted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more dark-hearted
form: darker-hearted
form: most dark-hearted
form: darkest-hearted
form: darkhearted
form: dark hearted
Senses: examples: text: And, at a feast, one of the darkest-hearted fellows, one of the very few who didn’t come to Church, got up and proposed they should throw off the Worship, as it was only bringing sickness and death among them, after all they had given up for it.
ref: 1894, Maggie Whitecross Paton, “The Shipwreck and the Angel-Child”, in Ja[me]s Paton, editor, Letters and Sketches from the New Hebrides, London: Hodder and Stoughton […], →OCLC, page 163:
text: “Your father is the darkest-hearted man of all,” he said tightly. “He preys on innocent, small children. Our Kickapoo children are revered! Never defiled! Your father will never defile children again!”
ref: 1996, Cassie Edwards, chapter 4, in Wild Whispers, New York, N.Y.: Topaz, →ISBN, page 61:
text: We must not forget that Satan is predicted by God as being evil and dark-hearted.
ref: 2012, Eathon Gums, Bridge over Troubled American Waters: Based on Race Division in America, →ISBN:
text: Born in Ipswich at the time of the great plague, I grew, if not straight in the eyes of my contemporaries, then at least I grew – dark-faced, dark-haired, dark-hearted with a slight cast in one eye.
ref: 2012, Paul Doherty, A Brood of Vipers, →ISBN:
text: Perla Lowell's marriage was a painful sham, so now—penniless and alone —she refuses to let this dark-hearted Greek intimidate her.
ref: 2014, Maya Blake, What The Greek Can't Resist, →ISBN:
text: I can help...but not if you use another. Think on that, my dark-hearted wildman.
ref: 2015, Samantha Harte, Timberhill, →ISBN:
glosses: Malevolent; cold and cruel.
examples: text: His dying command makes in incumbent on his followers to offer the “unspeakable gift” alike at the door of cottage and palace, forecastle and cabin. Mountain top and vale— plain and ocean are to be made to rejoice in the “glad tidings of great joy.” How the dark-hearted of earth need its light.
ref: 1853, Naval Journal - Volume 25, page 135:
text: Poor, dark-hearted creatures! when will they learn to say with us those calm words of intense Christian comfort,
ref: 1872, The Net, page 6:
text: Our fathers were dark-hearted heathen, they knew not Thee and Thy holy word ; and our hearts are worse, for we know that we do not serve Thee as we ought, yet we are Thy work, and come to Thee for help, the help of Thy Holy Spirit.
ref: 1880, Robert Steel, The New Hebrides and Christian Missions:
text: The sad and dark-hearted women in the villages can see for themselves what the Sun of Righteousness can do, for was she not at one time one The Land of the Five Rivers.
ref: 1912, Until the Shadows Flee Away:
text: May the dark-hearted and the shallow in wisdom respectfully give heed to this way.
ref: 1921, R. Nishimoto, A Catechism of the Shin Sect (Buddhism) by A.K. Reischauer, page 8:
glosses: Unenlightened; ignorant of holy teachings.
examples: text: I was not prosperous enough to become intoxicated, nor poor enough to grow moody and dark-hearted, nor sufficiently at ease in my circumstances to sit idle and invent sin.
ref: 1862, Gerald Griffin, The Rivals: And Tracy's Ambition, page 205:
text: Only a dark-hearted bit of humanity, praying into the dark ; but what must that " only " mean to the Christ who died for him ?
ref: 1895, Amy Carmichael, From Sunrise Land: Letters from Japan, page 33:
text: Here I have to say that I was walking along dark-hearted, my nose out of joint about Audie's notice of her, for just as quickly as my feelings kindled, my old envy rared.
ref: 2013, Janet Peery, What the Thunder Said: A Novella and Stories, →ISBN:
glosses: Despondent.
examples: text: What is the latest word from the dark-hearted hills?
ref: 1953, Frank Borden Hanes, The Bat Brothers, page 294:
text: His work can mainly be divided into classical adaptations, usually with a dark heart, and apparently fluffy country-house comedies, often concerned with aristocrats and actresses, though these also tend to be dark-hearted and fundamentally, if not tragic, then at least elegantly sad about the human condition and its various compromises and betrayals.
ref: 2000, Ruth Leon, Sheridan Morley, A Century of Theatre, page 1941:
text: A senior writer at a small but influential political journal in 2005, the cold, dark-hearted year after the Bush-Kerry debacle, Adam had become convinced that the provision of decent medical treatment for every American was the crucial moral struggle of his generation.
ref: 2015, Ken Kalfus, Coup de Foudre, →ISBN:
glosses: Bleak.
examples: text: The wood is pale yellowish, often dark-hearted, close, dense, liable to split.
ref: 1901, The Journal of the Ceylon Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland, Volumes 16-17, page 226:
glosses: Having dark heartwood.
examples: text: I seemed to look down on a parterre of mixed hyacinths, variegated tulips, and dark-hearted poppies, as I beheld them.
ref: 1867, Catherine Ann Warfield, The Romance of Beauseincourt, page 126:
text: The dark-hearted or dominants behaved in two different ways. Some of them remained true to their type, all their offspring being dark-hearted.
ref: 1904, Hugo de Vries, Daniel Trembly MacDougal, Species and Varieties: Their Origin by Mutation:
text: Here, the tulips will bloom in rainbow riot, followed by the dark-hearted iris.
ref: 1984, McCall's - Volume 111, page 57:
text: His hands were so skilled in their actions, and our boat so happy on the sea, from the mingled colors of the moonlight a color more efflorescent emerged, just as the dawn emerges at the end of the night from the sneezes of a dark-hearted night.
ref: 2004, Aḥmad Karīmī Ḥakkāk, Kamran Talattof, Essays On Nima Yushij: Animating Modernism In Persian Poetry, →ISBN, page 159:
text: Pale cos lettuce leaves are displayed alongside shelled peas and red roses in one of Vincenzo Campi’s market scenes, in which a comely fruttivendola is surrounded by bowls and baskets of fresh produce, including some darker-hearted lettuce lurking beneath a dish of cherries.
ref: 2007, Gillian Riley, “Salad”, in The Oxford Companion to Italian Food, Oxford, Oxfordshire; New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 469, column 1:
glosses: Having a dark center.
Synonyms: black-hearted