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Example sentences for "heartlessly"

Lexicographically close words:
heartier; heartiest; heartily; heartiness; heartless; heartlessness; heartnut; heartnuts; heartrending; hearts
  1. And Kitty heartlessly left the pergola and went up to the rustic steps to hold the hammer for Arnold.

  2. But who then has stood heartlessly by, and watched the writhing and anguish of my Mexico, withholding the hand of power that could bring peace?

  3. What may have been mechanically and heartlessly done by the overseer, is now done with a will.

  4. She was shrewder than he--in fact, his master already; but hinted at the sale of her soul so heartlessly that it shocked even him.

  5. A week later came another of these heartlessly infrequent letters.

  6. In mid-August one of Camille's heartlessly infrequent letters brought me a mint of blithe news.

  7. Clare and Elinor laughed heartlessly at the wistful calculation of the difference between short and long dresses.

  8. He is justly punished for his sin," thought his unknown daughter, while she secretly wondered why he had never claimed the child his wife had heartlessly deserted to return to him.

  9. Ah, she little dreams that the poor babe that she deserted so heartlessly is sitting before her now.

  10. But one never dies," she added in a disgusted tone, whereat Hadria heartlessly laughed, and hurried the visitor upstairs to help her to unpack.

  11. As soon as she sees you she will want the watch, and then you will be placed between the awful alternatives of voluntarily surrendering your freedom, and heartlessly refusing to present yourself to her as a big plaything.

  12. But as the slave had been so heartlessly and almost cruelly sent back to his little boat, there was in fact no robbery, and all that could have been claimed was the intention or intent to kill, etc.

  13. I was simply broken-hearted when I recalled my previous dangerous services for the Government; could not understand why I should be so ruthlessly and heartlessly treated by the Secretary-of-War.

  14. This story, heartlessly and irreverently told, was the tragedy of my life!

  15. And then I heartlessly put him through the third degree--forestalling my friends, the police.

  16. Surely she must be desperately ill and unable to write, rather than ignoring him so heartlessly and intentionally.

  17. How heartlessly blooming you are looking, Anne, while your parent is suffering.

  18. Perhaps when a man has been heartlessly slighted he turns unconsciously to the woman of whose undoubted love he is vaguely aware.

  19. Captain De Crespigny ought to suffer all the bitterness of disappointment himself, when his insatiable vanity inflicts it so heartlessly on others.

  20. Olive was as sympathetic as if she had never been treated so heartlessly that day in Brighton, as eager to hear that Dorothy was happy, as eager to accept her assurances that she was.

  21. Mothers cast themselves at the feet of the tyrants and pitifully begged to be taken with their babes; they were heartlessly thrust aside.

  22. Where others rest their blood-reeking weapons in the belief that they have reached, at last, the summit of crime, he heartlessly advances as upon mere stepping stones to far greater cruelties to come.

  23. As she now saw him, the boy had been heartlessly shoe-horned into the brass-bound livery of a page, and wore upon his feet a brace of leathern wrecks which even the broad charity of a Charlie Chaplin would have hesitated to call shoes.

  24. Many years elapsed before the hope of gain induced any of their race to return to England, where they had been treated so heartlessly and had suffered so much.

  25. For a discarded lover heartlessly played with, as she herself confessed he had been, Claude Bainrothe bore himself very proudly and calmly in Evelyn Erle's presence, I thought.

  26. A fledgling like the Ditton boy, or poor Harry Ellice, with whose adolescent affections you so heartlessly played chuck-farthing at our incomparable Henrietta's party to-night?

  27. But the girl replied heartlessly that she hoped they would starve to death, ignoring their pitiful glances.

  28. To lead her on to talk in her sometimes brilliant, always heartlessly unsparing, fashion, perhaps to smile her shade of a bitter smile, gave a man something to do, especially if he was bored.

  29. Street-cars went by loaded from front to back platform, and were forced from want of room to whizz heartlessly by groups waiting anxiously at street corners.

  30. With this threat the incensed lieutenant ran heartlessly down the stairs, leaving her sadly wounded comrade to follow when she would.

  31. Then she heartlessly gave out several pages of them for the advance lesson.

  32. No, you shall not refuse it, or you may be sorry for it if Miss White should turn you out in the streets some day as heartlessly as old Sparks did.

  33. They were engaged; but Vernon is only a poor man, a stenographer in a bank, and when Aunt Judith invited her here, she heartlessly threw him over, hoping to catch a richer husband.

  34. If she could have looked into the prison to which she had heartlessly consigned her fair young niece, she would have felt encouraged in her schemes; for the lovely girl was fading like some fair flower rudely broken from its stem.


  35. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "heartlessly" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    coldly; cruelly; dispassionately; harshly; heartlessly; indifferently; roughly