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HEARTLESSLY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does heartlessly mean?
• HEARTLESSLY (adverb)
The adverb HEARTLESSLY has 1 sense:
Familiarity information: HEARTLESSLY used as an adverb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
In a heartless manner
Context example:
she behaves rather heartlessly toward her admirers
Pertainym:
heartless (lacking in feeling or pity or warmth)
Context examples
I must say, however, that the sailors themselves were sympathetic, as instance the case of Johnson; but the masters (the hunters and the captain) were heartlessly indifferent.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
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