dark-hearted
Part of speech: adj
Morphological type: simple
Inflected forms:
form: more dark-hearted
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: darker-hearted
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most dark-hearted
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: darkest-hearted
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: darkhearted
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: dark hearted
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Malevolent; cold and cruel.
pos: adj
examples: 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.
“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!”
We must not forget that Satan is predicted by God as being evil and dark-hearted.
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.
Perla Lowell's marriage was a painful sham, so now—penniless and alone —she refuses to let this dark-hearted Greek intimidate her.
I can help...but not if you use another. Think on that, my dark-hearted wildman.
gloss: Unenlightened; ignorant of holy teachings.
pos: adj
tags: archaic
examples: 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.
Poor, dark-hearted creatures! when will they learn to say with us those calm words of intense Christian comfort,
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.
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.
May the dark-hearted and the shallow in wisdom respectfully give heed to this way.
gloss: Despondent.
pos: adj
examples: 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.
Only a dark-hearted bit of humanity, praying into the dark ; but what must that " only " mean to the Christ who died for him ?
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.
gloss: Bleak.
pos: adj
examples: What is the latest word from the dark-hearted hills?
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.
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.
gloss: Having dark heartwood.
pos: adj
examples: The wood is pale yellowish, often dark-hearted, close, dense, liable to split.
gloss: Having a dark center.
pos: adj
examples: I seemed to look down on a parterre of mixed hyacinths, variegated tulips, and dark-hearted poppies, as I beheld them.
The dark-hearted or dominants behaved in two different ways. Some of them remained true to their type, all their offspring being dark-hearted.
Here, the tulips will bloom in rainbow riot, followed by the dark-hearted iris.
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.
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.
Synonyms: black-hearted
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