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n. - An absence of concern for the welfare of others.

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  • As a matter of fact, what you call heartlessness is sheer broad-mindedness on my part.
  • Specs were lowered, true, but the reason that the Conservative Party were able to attend to immediate need, did not lie in heartlessness.
  • But that's just the kind of heartlessness conservative Republicans are known for.
  • To read this decision otherwise in order to accuse Roberts and, presumably, in all fairness, Henderson and Williams of some kind of heartlessness is really over the top.
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