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She displays a callous indifference to others' suffering.callous = heartless (cruel)
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Even Odysseus himself seemed changed, callous instead of unflinching. (source)callous = heartless (with a cruel lack of concern)
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"For starters," he said, "I will take each and every one of your books—and I will burn them." It was callous. (source)callous = heartless (cruel)
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Articles had appeared in nearly every major newspaper blasting the government's callous disregard for life. (source)callous = heartless (with a disregard for others)
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It was small, the skin dry and calloused. (source)calloused = thickened
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But her pout only seemed to harden Dodge, to make him even more callous toward her. (source)callous = insensitive (emotionally hardened)
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Dennis saw the callous way my aunt treated me, and he saw her love trysts with Mr. Stein, and he never said anything about how she acted with Mr. Stein, but he'd always offer a kind word to me, or just make a joke. (source)callous = heartless (with a cruel lack of concern)
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A calloused hand, a healed cut, the shiny slash of a burn on the deep bronze skin.† (source)
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...what he was about to say was just an aftereffect of someone else's actions—someone else's callousness. (source)callousness = insensitivity (emotionally)standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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Have they been programmed to hate our faces particularly because we have survived and they were so callously murdered?† (source)
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One time he showed me the callouses on his hands.† (source)
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These earliest jobs, though, that she chose for us, they weren't generally of the callousing kind.† (source)
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…he is brute, and more than brute; he is devil in callous, and the heart of him is not; (source)callous = heartlessness (cruel lack of concern for others)
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I stare at the ridged and calloused skin welted by thick brown fate lines.† (source)
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He didn't seem to be sorry at all, and suddenly she was angry at him, not only for his callousness about the horse but because he didn't appreciate anything that was being done for him, by her or anyone else. (source)callousness = insensitivity (emotionally)
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And here I was, callously throwing away everything she wanted in life like it was garbage.† (source)
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