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• n  an absence of concern for the welfare of others

• When George meets Netta, a beauty who has the torpid heartlessness of a late Roman Emperor, he collapses into a state of slavery which is emotionally uninhabitable.
• Hysteria is not the only extreme that societies avoid by these dependencies, however; they avoid or at least reduce a general heartlessness and egocentricity as well.
• He lost the latter job reportedly as a result of a swinging personal life and a chilling heartlessness that earned him the nickname "the smiling cobra.

• coldheartedness
• hardheartedness

News & Articles

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• When compassion for customers flies out the window
  American Airlines shows astonishing insensitivity by charging a couple coping with a family emergency almost $700 to push back a one-hour flight by one day. It never ceases to amaze me when large companies, which claim to put customers first, demonstrate their complete heartlessness.        
  Aug. 6, 2013 - Los Angeles Times

Quotes

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• Francis Pangilinan in Philippine Star
  Those who ordered the arrest at the hospital revealed their heartlessness and total disregard for the grief and suffering of the family. They are a disgrace to the (police) and do not deserve to hold on to their posts any minute longer,...