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adjective

Callous adj.

Hardened; indurated. "A callous hand." "A callous ulcer."

Hardened in mind; insensible; unfeeling; unsusceptible. "The callous diplomatist." "It is an immense blessing to be perfectly callous to ridicule."

Synonyms: Obdurate; hard; hardened; indurated; insensible; unfeeling; unsusceptible. See Obdurate. "A callousness and numbness of soul."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Callous" Quotes from Famous Books

... misfortune, this will-o'-the-wisp attraction exercised by London on young men of brains. They come here to be degraded, or to perish, when their true sphere is a life of peaceful remoteness. The type of man capable of success in London is more or less callous and cynical. If I had the training of boys, I would teach them to think of London as the last place where life ...

— New Grub Street • George Gissing

... ashamed of it," murmured Aunt Caroline in what she fondly hoped was a whisper. "Utterly callous! Benis," in a wavering voice, "I had ...

— The Window-Gazer • Isabel Ecclestone Mackay

... such hardness of heart and callousness to the sight of bloodshed and violence; but, indeed, I began to find that such constant exposure to scenes of blood was having a slight effect upon myself, and I shuddered when I came to think that I too was becoming callous. ...

— The Coral Island - A Tale Of The Pacific Ocean • R. M. Ballantyne

... the presentation of her daughter; she would not have missed it for any consideration. That morning she had felt more pain than usual, and had been obliged to have recourse to restoratives; but once more to join the gay and fashionable throng—the very idea braced her nerves, rendered her callous to suffering, and indifferent ...

— Newton Forster • Frederick Marryat

... the same time the helpless targets for the profit-mongers of their own section who insidiously slew great numbers of them—not, it is true, out of deliberate lust for murder, but because the craze for profits crushed every instinct of honor and humanity, and rendered them callous to the appalling consequences. The battlefields were not more deadly than the supplies furnished by capitalist contractors. [Footnote: This is one of many examples: Philip S. Justice, a gun manufacturer ...

— Great Fortunes from Railroads • Gustavus Myers

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