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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
calloused
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ He ran a calloused finger around the rim of his glass.
▪ His was a big, strong hand, roughly calloused from fieldwork.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He gripped her fingers against his calloused palm and led her forward.
▪ Its floor is covered with a fine layer of chalk dust from the calloused palms of legions of lifters.
▪ The opposite danger is that in trying to protect yourself, you build up a calloused attitude.
▪ With satisfaction she noticed how her dear little hands were becoming calloused.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
calloused

calloused \cal"loused\ adj. having callouses; -- of skin.

Syn: thickened.

Wiktionary
calloused

a. Having become or being made callous.

WordNet
calloused

adj. having skin made tough and thick through wear [syn: thickened]

Wikipedia
Calloused

Calloused marks the third album from Gideon. Facedown Records released the project on October 14, 2014. Gideon worked with Will Putney on the production of this album.

Usage examples of "calloused".

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.

Packard had already heard of him, a rowdy and a rough-neck but a capable timberjack to the calloused fingers of him.

Jossie, who got a shrewd once-over for aerodynamic lines and a shake from a hand like a piece of calloused teak.

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.

De las Torres took the hilt of the saber in his big, horny hand, quickly found its balance and swung it experimentally a few times, then tested various areas of the keen edge on a calloused thumb, before releasing the hilt long enough to fit the saber knot around his wrist with great care.

When she saw, on the back and shoulders of the child, great welts and calloused spots, ineffaceable marks of the system under which she had grown up thus far, her heart became pitiful within her.

She need only to look at her calloused hands, feel the ache rising from a sudden shift of her thin shoulders to remember how most of it had come into her keeping.

She looked down at her calloused brown hands, clutched so tightly on a fold of her cloak that her knuckles stood in sharp relief.

Glancing down, he saw the white hand resting in his calloused palmher skin smooth and soft, his skin scarred from the forge fires.