callousness
Example Sentences
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There was a callousness about his exit and the brutal words about him from Desmond.
From BBC • Jan. 5, 2026
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.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 8, 2025
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 • Oct. 7, 2025
It was the first operation Martino has witnessed and she said it underscores the disturbing callousness of how they are being conducted.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 13, 2025
“Who are you? Why are you doing this?”—as though cruelty and callousness were the norm, ordinary decency the marvel.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
