They could quite hard-headedly - and perhaps hardheartedly - hold to job-qualification requirements which do not make allowance for the disabled.

It wouldn't do her parents any harm to worry about her for one night, Jamie decided hardheartedly, and besides, she didn't really think she could face an irate parent at this time of night.

You'll be at school,' said Bill, hard-heartedly, pulling at his pipe.

'Well, let the others ride then, and you wait till your legs let you mount,' said his aunt hard-heartedly.

'It won't hurt him to starve for a week,' said Mr Lynton hard-heartedly.

'It sounds like it,' agreed Jack, hard-heartedly.

Cassandra excused herself as soon as Lady Violet retired, hard-heartedly leaving Sir Philip to squirm out of the Moulton women's clutches by himself.