Hard-hearted and Humane

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Hard-hearted adjective - Having or showing a lack of sympathy or tender feelings.

Usage example: a hard-hearted brush-off to a homeless man asking for money

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Humane is an antonym for hard-hearted in topics: unsympathetic, mean, vicious.

Humane adjective - Having or marked by sympathy and consideration for others.

Usage example: the Geneva conventions spelled out standards for the humane treatment of prisoners of war

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Hard-hearted is an antonym for humane.

Nearby Words: humanity, human, humanely, humaneness, humanism

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