darkhearted
English
Adjective
darkhearted (comparative more darkhearted, superlative most darkhearted)
- Alternative form of dark-hearted
- Malevolent
- 1866, Lionel James Trotter, The history of the British empire in India, 1844 to 1862:
- The Nana himself, his like-minded brother Bala Rao, and the darkhearted Azimoollah Khan, all died in Nepal during 1859.
- Unenlightened
- 1865, The Bishop of Honolulu, The Hawaiian Islands, page 53:
- Chiefs are darkhearted and fickle.
- Despondent
- 1978, Ansen Dibell, Pursuit of the Screamer, page 19:
- Fealis, First Dancer before her, had been cut down in her fourth dueldance; and Mene, before that, had been lamed and had come to feel too darkhearted for briding.
- Bleak
- 1991, Ira A. Robbins, The Trouser Press Record Guide, →ISBN, page 127:
- Thus motivated, he began to really distinguish himself as a pompous prat on Atrocities, Christian Death's darkhearted return to the somber cesspool of slow-paced grimness.
- Having dark heartwood
- 1970, Quarterly Journal of Forestry - Volume 64, page 69:
- The next thing that impressed was the very high proportion of red or darkhearted wood and the very small ring of white wood in these darkhearted logs.
- Having a dark center
- 2012, Troy Denning, Faces of Deception, →ISBN:
- An eternity later, the snowflake melted into a darkhearted halo.
- Malevolent
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