hard-hearted
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++LDOCE 5++hard-heart·ed /ˌhɑːd ˈhɑːtɪd $ ˌhɑːrd ˈhɑːr-/ adjective UNKINDnot caring about other people’s feelings 硬心肠的，没有同情心的 OPP soft-hearted► see thesaurus at unkind
Examples from the Corpus
hard-hearted• I've tried to help in the past, but I think now I have to be hard-hearted and make them help themselves.• Anabelle watched him go, thinking that she had never met so many hard-hearted and spiteful creatures in her whole short life.• a hard-hearted and unprincipled man• It proves you're not as hard-hearted as I imagined.• Another case of hard-hearted capitalists pushing aside the less fortunate to enhance their investments?• A good organiser is totally objective, even downright hard-hearted in choosing venue, style, speakers and programme.• Clinton began his political comeback after the debacle of the 1994 congressional elections as the protector of the elderly from hard-hearted Republicans.• Love and politics clash when Maggie falls for a hard-hearted soldier.hard-heart·ed adjectiveChineseSyllable
people’s about caring Corpus not other feelings
hard-hearted
hard-heart‧ed /ˌhɑːd ˈhɑːtəd $ ˌhɑːrd ˈhɑːr-/
adjective
not caring about other people’s feelings
OPP soft-hearted
▪ unkind treating people in a way that makes them unhappy or upset. Unkind sounds rather formal. In everyday English, people usually say mean or nasty: Children can be very unkind to each other. | a rather unkind remark
▪mean especially spoken unkind: Don’t be mean to your sister! | It was a mean thing to do.
▪nasty deliberately unkind, and seeming to enjoy making people unhappy: He said some really nasty things before he left. | a nasty man
▪hurtful unkind – used about remarks and actions: Joe couldn’t forget the hurtful things she had said. | Couples sometimes do hurtful things to each other.
▪spiteful deliberately unkind to someone because you are jealous of them or angry with them: The other women were spiteful to her, and gave her the hardest work to do. | She watched them with spiteful glee (=pleasure).
▪malicious deliberately behaving in a way that is likely to upset, hurt, or cause problems for someone: Someone had been spreading malicious rumours about him. | There was a malicious smile on her face. | an act of malicious vandalism | The accusations are malicious.
▪unsympathetic not seeming to care about someone’s problems, and not trying to help them or make them feel better: Her parents were very unsympathetic, and told her that she deserved to fail her exam. | an unsympathetic boss
▪hard-hearted very unsympathetic and not caring at all about other people’s feelings: Was he hard-hearted enough to leave his son in jail overnight? | a hard-hearted businessman
hard-heart‧ed /ˌhɑːd ˈhɑːtəd $ ˌhɑːrd ˈhɑːr-/
adjectivenot caring about other people’s feelings
OPP soft-hearted
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