All 3 Uses of
callous
in
The Picture of Dorian Gray - 20 chapter version
- But she seems to me to be simply callous and cold.†
Chpt 7
- He remembered with what callousness he had watched her.†
Chpt 7 *
- Callous, concentrated on evil, with stained mind, and soul hungry for rebellion, Dorian Gray hastened on, quickening his step as he went, but as he darted aside into a dim archway, that had served him often as a short cut to the ill-famed place where he was going, he felt himself suddenly seized from behind, and before he had time to defend himself he was thrust back against the wall, with a brutal hand round his throat.†
Chpt 16
Definition:
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(callous) heartless (cruel lack of concern for other's feelings)
or an alternative spelling for callus--thickened skin that comes from rubbing as when having calluses on the hands from doing much work with a shovel