callous
Example Sentences
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The late French queen is best known for her supposedly callous, clueless, privileged suggestion that if the peasants couldn’t get enough bread, they should eat cake instead.
From MarketWatch
David Huerta, president of SEIU-United Service Workers West, which represents airport workers, said the timing of the motion, in the middle of the holiday season, was “particularly callous.”
From Los Angeles Times
I am, by the average measure, certainly no callous stoic.
From Salon
The warm evening air is replaced by callous, suffocating water.
From Literature
What sort of people were they, who could talk in such a callous way?
From Literature
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
