callous
Example Sentences
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I am, by the average measure, certainly no callous stoic.
From Salon
Indeed, Dalia has trouble with her Italian, and when she offers to help him find truffles, he insists his granddaughter doesn’t have the instincts or the calloused hands necessary for the job.
From Los Angeles Times
When I ask them what they would like to say to the hackers responsible, they think it is futile to try to change the minds of these callous criminals.
From BBC
Those who had marched off to war with youthful idealism and energy return home calloused, maybe wiser, but cynical.
A Belfast woman who "strung along" a seriously ill man with lies that she would donate her kidney to him has been branded "callous" and "not human".
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
