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Definition of Callous
Callous

Hardened; indurated.

Hardened in mind; insensible; unfeeling; unsusceptible.

Related Definitions:
Hardened, In, Indurated, Insensible, Mind, Unfeeling


Callous Quotations

Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul. She becomes all outer show and inward emptiness; dull, callous, and indifferent.
Virginia Woolf

Memory in youth is active and easily impressible; in old age it is comparatively callous to new impressions, but still retains vividly those of earlier years.
Charlotte Bronte

The larger the state, the more callous it becomes... the colder its heart. It is also true that the bigger the corporation, the more callous its heart. But unlike the state, corporations have competition and have no police powers.
Dennis Prager

As adults, we do know more, but we don't know enough. People can be very unthinkingly callous.
Dennis Potter

In my blood there is no Jewish blood. In their callous rage, all anti-Semites must hate me now as a Jew. For that reason I am a true Russian.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko

The political spin in Washington is revolting, just revolting. It's a callous political game.
Rob Bishop

Callous Translations

callous in German is schwielig, hart
callous in Spanish is calloso


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