冷れい血けつ漢かん

noun

cold-blooded person; heartless person

A strongly negative term for someone who lacks empathy or emotion, often used to describe cruel or unfeeling behavior. The word carries a literary or dramatic tone.

• 彼かれは冷れい血けつ漢かんのように、困こまっている人ひとを見みても助たすけようとしなかった。

  Like a cold-blooded person, he didn't try to help even when he saw someone in trouble.

• あの冷れい血けつ漢かんは、自じ分ぶんの利り益えきのためなら誰だれでも裏うら切ぎる。

  That heartless person would betray anyone for his own gain.