Crossword clues for callous
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Callous \Cal"lous\, a. [L. callosus callous hard, fr. callum, callus, callous skin: cf. F. calleux.]
Hardened; indurated. ``A callous hand.''
--Goldsmith. ``A callous ulcer.''
--Dunglison.-
Hardened in mind; insensible; unfeeling; unsusceptible. ``The callous diplomatist.''
--Macaulay.It is an immense blessing to be perfectly callous to ridicule.
--T. Arnold.Syn: Obdurate; hard; hardened; indurated; insensible; unfeeling; unsusceptible. See Obdurate. -- Cal"lous*ly, adv.
A callousness and numbness of soul.
--Bentley.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1400, "hardened," in the physical sense, from Latin callosus "thick-skinned," from callus, callum "hard skin" (see callus). The figurative sense of "unfeeling" appeared in English by 1670s. Related: Callously; callousness.
Wiktionary
a. 1 emotion hardened; unfeeling and indifferent to the suffering/feelings of others. 2 Having calluses. n. (alternative form of callus English)
WordNet
adj. emotionally hardened; "a callous indifference to suffering"; "cold-blooded and indurate to public opinion" [syn: thick-skinned, indurate, pachydermatous]
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "callous".
She has given her three pairs of shoes, but Fila will not wear them, confident her long skirts that reach down to the dusty floor will hide her chapped and calloused heels.
The most calloused trull would do it, given a fingerbreadth of encouragement, and other women took even less.
His own hand was engulfed by the huge and calloused extremity with hooflike nails.
Year by year, however, as custom calloused him to the only part in life he seemed fit to play, he forgot about the waste of time in the Interborough cars.
This callous treatment of the Banabans in the 1920s and 1930s, like that of the Nauruans on a similar island 250 kilometres to the west, is a demonstration of the self-interest of colonial governments when there was a sufficiently valuable resource worth exploiting.
They tell their children nasty stories about Callous Chou the Pinchfist Prince, and strangers can tell where he was buried by watching the direction when farmers pee in the fields.
Packard had already heard of him, a rowdy and a rough-neck but a capable timberjack to the calloused fingers of him.
Much allowance must be made for the treatment of prisoners by a belligerent who is himself short of food, but nothing can excuse the harshness which the Boers showed to the Colonials who fell into their power, or the callous neglect of the sick prisoners at Waterval.
Federates spread out to join battle, the high-altitude scouts continued to send in word of settlements bombed to dustclouds, life and structures wiped from VeeRon with callous, methodical deliberation.
Jossie, who got a shrewd once-over for aerodynamic lines and a shake from a hand like a piece of calloused teak.
Stobart, as a rough calculation, was as callous as any three Rosks put together, even allowing two of them to be Ap II Dowl and Budo Budda.
She tossed it onto the pile and grasped another tendril with a hand that had grown strong and calloused during her training.
But the ground felt strong beneath her feet, and the feel of the smooth staff in her calloused hands reassured her.
Robyn seized the neck of the mage with hands that were strong and calloused from work in the grove.
Daryth emerged from the smithy, running a calloused thumb across the edge of his scimitar.