cold-heartedly
In unfeeling manner
Cold-heartedly describes doing something without sympathy, compassion, or emotional warmth.
The adverb emphasizes deliberate cruelty or indifference: She cold-heartedly dismissed his apology, The company cold-heartedly laid off workers right before the holidays.
It suggests not just lack of feeling but a willful refusal to feel.
Without sympathy or emotion
- pitilesslyWithout compassion or remorse
- mercilesslyWithout pity or restraint
- uncompassionatelyWithout pity or concern
- unsympatheticallyWithout pity or understanding
remorselessly · soullessly · stonily · inhumanely · hardheartedly · uncharitably · obdurately · insensibly
Without interest or emotion
- detachedlyIn uninvolved manner
- unconcernedlyWithout care or worry
- alooflyIn detached manner
- impassivelyWithout visible reaction
dispassionately · emotionlessly · nonchalantly · phlegmatically · stoically · unresponsively · uncaringly · coolly
In a brutal manner
- maliciouslyWith harmful intent
- sadisticallyWith enjoyment of suffering
- malevolentlyWith harmful intent
- vindictivelyWith desire for revenge
spitefully · savagely · barbarically · fiendishly · diabolically · wickedly · nastily · venomously
unfeelingly
Without sympathy or emotion
- pitilesslyWithout compassion or remorse
- mercilesslyWithout pity or restraint
- uncompassionatelyWithout pity or concern
unsympathetically · remorselessly · soullessly · stonily · inhumanely · hardheartedly · uncharitably · obdurately · insensibly · implacably
apathetically
Without interest or emotion
- detachedlyIn uninvolved manner
- unconcernedlyWithout care or worry
- alooflyIn detached manner
impassively · dispassionately · emotionlessly · nonchalantly · phlegmatically · stoically · unresponsively · uncaringly · coolly · distantly
viciously
In a brutal manner
- maliciouslyWith harmful intent
- sadisticallyWith enjoyment of suffering
- malevolentlyWith harmful intent
vindictively · spitefully · savagely · barbarically · fiendishly · diabolically · wickedly · nastily · venomously · meanly
cold-heartedlywarm-heartedly
With caring kindness
tenderly · lovingly · compassionately · affectionately · caringly
cold-heartedlysympathetically
With shared feeling
humanely · mercifully · benevolently · charitably · empathetically
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