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heartlessly

adverb

  1. callously/cruelly
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adv

Etymology: Etymology tree English heartless Middle English -ly English -ly English heartlessly From heartless + -ly.

  1. In a heartless manner.

    It is the habit of heartlessly pecking at these that shows a soul that is blasé. Of late, for example, it has been a fashion with a small minority of British writers to assert their culture by a very supercilious demeanour towards an idea which ought, beyond all others, to be sacred in this island—the idea of Liberty.

    As you recover from Junkspace, Junkspace recovers from you: between 2 and 5 a.m., yet another population, this one heartlessly casual and appreciably darker, is mopping, hoovering, sweeping, toweling, resupplying.