Both Uses
callous
in
The Book Thief
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- When he turned the light on in the small, callous washroom that night, Liesel observed the strangeness of her foster father's eyes.†
p. 34.6
- "For starters," he said, "I will take each and every one of your books—and I will burn them." It was callous.
p. 203.8 *callous = heartless (cruel)
Definitions:
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(1)
(callous as in: callous indifference) heartless (cruel lack of concern for other's feelings)
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(2)
(callous as in: a thick callous) thickened skin that comes from rubbing as when having calluses on the hands from doing much work with a shovel
- (3) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)