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callous

[kal-uhs] / ˈkæl əs /


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“They will be sickened and embarrassed to have a parent be so callous and vindictive.”

From Slate Aug. 18, 2026

"If you can't trust a funeral undertaker, who can you trust? How can someone be so callous, cold and calculated?"

From BBC Jul. 27, 2026

I don’t want to sound callous, but as events turned out, he never needed the higher benefit.

From MarketWatch Jul. 15, 2026

One place to start is reversing the agency’s arbitrary and callous rejections of rare disease and cancer treatments.

From The Wall Street Journal May 8, 2026

Has she already forgotten how terrible Brady’s death was, or is she so callous that she just doesn’t care?

From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman




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