callous
Example Sentences
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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
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
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
