dead-hearted

See also: deadhearted

English

Etymology

dead +‎ hearted

Adjective

dead-hearted (comparative more dead-hearted, superlative most dead-hearted)

1. Alternative form of deadhearted
   • 1981, David G. Sweet, Gary B. Nash, Struggle and Survival in Colonial America, →ISBN, page 125:

     An eighteenth-century planter in Virginia complained: "My people seem to be quite dead-hearted and either cannot or will not work."