stone-hearted

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Adjective[edit]

stone-hearted (comparative more stone-hearted, superlative most stone-hearted)

  1. Alternative form of stonehearted
    • 2008, Richard Doster, Safe at Home, →ISBN, page 105:
      But today, my friends, you and I must contend with a stone-hearted man who will not even comfort the poor with a place to sit.
    • 6 May 2023, Rachel Cooke, “It was ludicrous but also magnificent: the coronation stirred every emotion”, in The Guardian[1]:
      Only a stone-hearted person could fail to have been moved by the multifaith parts of the service, and if you felt nothing when the choir sang Handel’s Zadok the Priest at the king’s anointment, you are either an algorithm or half dead.