callousness
Example Sentences
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But I got used to that too—the callousness of powerful people and the way they didn’t care what was fair.
From Literature
It was an act of the most horrendous callousness and self-interest.
From BBC
There was a callousness about his exit and the brutal words about him from Desmond.
From BBC
We knew this from past cross-country trips, but we felt surprised all over again—perhaps because of the callousness we perceive among people we see in the news.
Jobless inertia and financial strife breed a cruelty that isn’t dissimilar from the cold strike of an employer maintaining their bottom line, cutting 100 workers with the same callousness that they’d cut 1,000.
From Salon
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
