icehearted

English

Adjective

icehearted (comparative more icehearted, superlative most icehearted)

  1. Alternative form of ice-hearted
    • 1898, The Forum - Volume 25, page 444:
      There are no painted-glass windows in Southern mills to cut off the view or the light of heaven, and no icehearted superintendents to lord it over the operatives.
    • 1955, Elisabeth Margo, Taming the Forty-niner, page 85:
      And it was Swan — not the Chinese slave, not the icehearted mademoiselle, not the thieving ugly whore at the fandango house — that the forty-niner wove into his mythology.
    • 1989, Ronald Verlin Cassill, “Love? Squalor?”, in Collected stories, page 12:
      Oh, icehearted counselor . . . If I could find a word that might make known The crime of my destroyer.
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