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The quality of being cruel-hearted; lack of compassion and kindness..
More tragical and more inscrutably mysterious than any mystic sight, human or machine, throughout the factory, was the strange innocence of cruel-heartedness in this usage-hardened boy.
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Cruel-heartedness means The quality of being cruel-hearted; lack of compassion and kindness..
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More tragical and more inscrutably mysterious than any mystic sight, human or machine, throughout the factory, was the strange innocence of cruel-heartedness in this usage-hardened boy.
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