dark hearted

dark hearted (comparative more dark hearted or darker hearted, superlative most dark hearted or darkest hearted)

1. Alternative form of dark-hearted.
   • 1847 May–August, “Green Point. (Table Bay.)”, in The Metropolitan Magazine, volume XLIX, London: Kent and Richards, […], →OCLC, page 427:

     The star, broad blazing, lingers till it steep / Its gathered folds of radiance where the West / Reflects the unpeopled heaven on the breast / Of seas now dimmed, which mourn, their glory gone, / The lifeless splendours of an empty throne. / Well mightst thou, star of beauteous glory, be / To darker hearted men a deity.

   • 1899 January 14, “Caught in the Act: ‘Billie’ and His Gang of Boodlers Are Hauled Up Short for Their Crooked Work. […]”, in The Butte Times, volume 5, number 52, Butte, Mont., →OCLC, page [4], column 1:

     There never was a darker hearted or a more criminal strangling of a mighty people than that attempted by “Bill” Clark and four-eyed Wellcome at Helena this week.

   • 1894, Cork Historical and Archaeological Society, Journal of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society:

     How sad and dark hearted In deep pain I pine, Since fortune has parted Her fondness from mine.

   • 1894, William Stevenson, Wood: Its Use as a Constructive Material, page 124:

     Upon the Baltic ash assuming size it becomes dark hearted, a remark which applies to it without exception.

   • 1975, R. S. Miller, Misi Gete: John Geddie pioneer missionary to the New Hebrides:

     May God have mercy on this dark hearted and wicked man, and save him from ruin.

   • 1988, Arvan Kumar, “Closer to the Son”, in The Heartstone Odyssey: Chandra’s Story, Dingwall, Highland: Allied Mouse, published 1999 (14th printing), page 112:

     As they talked, neither of them noticed Scarfeather, the darkest hearted crow there had ever been, perched on a tree and listening to them. The news made Scarfeather very angry and, as he sat and watched them, a plan began to form in his cruel mind.