All 7 Uses of
callous
in
Of Human Bondage
- Then they called him cynical and callous.†
Chpt 53-54
- Philip wondered whether she did so in order to pain him or merely because she was callous.†
Chpt 61-62
- Oh, he's done for,' answered Lawson, with the cheerful callousness of his youth.†
Chpt 65-66callousness = insensitivity (emotionally)
- It seemed callous to Philip, but when he tried to reason with her she pretended to think he was concerned with the expense.†
Chpt 71-72
- Philip was startled at the callousness with which she insisted on getting rid of it so soon, but she argued with common sense that the poor child had much better be put somewhere before it grew used to her.†
Chpt 73-74 *callousness = insensitivity (emotionally)
- How can you be so callous!'†
Chpt 83-84
- He remembered with what a callous selfishness his uncle had treated her, how obtuse he had been to her humble, devoted love.†
Chpt 111-112
Definitions:
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(1)
(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 - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)