English

Noun

hard-heartednesses

1. plural of hard-heartedness
   • 1961, Horace Traubel, With Walt Whitman in Camden: (March 28 - July 14, 1888), page 142:

     He spoke last night of the great social whirl—of “the porcelains, chinas, hangings, laces, fine dinners, equipages, balls, shows, hypocrisies, hard-heartednesses that make it up,” arguing: “I hate it—hate it with my body and with the rest of me