All 5 Uses of
callous
in
The Brothers Karamazov
- If the people around you are spiteful and callous and will not hear you, fall down before them and beg their forgiveness; for in truth you are to blame for their not wanting to hear you.†
Chpt 6
- And that happy creature rejected the priceless gift, prized it and loved it not, scorned it and remained callous.†
Chpt 6
- Kolya said suddenly, in a most callous voice.†
Chpt 10
- The houses recede, the cart moves on—oh, that's nothing, it's still far to the turning into the second street and he still looks boldly to right and to left at those thousands of callously curious people with their eyes fixed on him, and he still fancies that he is just such a man as they.†
Chpt 12
- "I won't give it to any one, I won't give you anything," Snegiryov cried callously.†
Chpt Epil. *
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