dark-hearted

Malevolent; cold and cruel.

And, at a feast, one of the darkest-hearted fellows, one of the very few who didn’t come to Church, got up and proposed they should throw off the Worship, as it was only bringing sickness and death among them, after all they had given up for it.

“Your father is the darkest-hearted man of all,” he said tightly. “He preys on innocent, small children. Our Kickapoo children are revered! Never defiled! Your father will never defile children again!”

Unenlightened; ignorant of holy teachings.

His dying command makes in incumbent on his followers to offer the “unspeakable gift” alike at the door of cottage and palace, forecastle and cabin. Mountain top and vale— plain and ocean are to be made to rejoice in the “glad tidings of great joy.” How the dark-hearted of earth need its light.

Poor, dark-hearted creatures! when will they learn to say with us those calm words of intense Christian comfort,

Despondent.

I was not prosperous enough to become intoxicated, nor poor enough to grow moody and dark-hearted, nor sufficiently at ease in my circumstances to sit idle and invent sin.

Only a dark-hearted bit of humanity, praying into the dark ; but what must that " only " mean to the Christ who died for him ?

Bleak.

What is the latest word from the dark-hearted hills?

His work can mainly be divided into classical adaptations, usually with a dark heart, and apparently fluffy country-house comedies, often concerned with aristocrats and actresses, though these also tend to be dark-hearted and fundamentally, if not tragic, then at least elegantly sad about the human condition and its various compromises and betrayals.

Having dark heartwood.

The wood is pale yellowish, often dark-hearted, close, dense, liable to split.