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.
Wiktionary
adv. In a callous manner; done without regard to others' sensitivities.
WordNet
adv. in a callous way; "he callously exploited their feelings" [syn: unfeelingly]
Usage examples of "callously".
Kamchan, however, callously left Hooka where he was and unlimbered his Bowman, rightly determining that it was time he took the initiative again.
The rereading after three weeks was even more interesting than he had expected, now that his lips did not tighten with anger at the ruthless way Leear had precipitated him into Naze, and so, callously, caused the death of Amor and Caldra.
Out of sight of the two women so callously arranging her future, and that of other helpless subordinates, the Scrap, Cassandra Merton, sat up indignantly, her colour coming and going, her dark eyes--her best feature-glowing with anger.
To the callously uninitiated eye it might have looked rather like a Heath Robinson contraption made up of a couple of old oil-cans and bits of battered gaspipe.
To have that loyalty betrayed so callously was a betrayal of everything the Empire held sacred.
A world of memories, grave and gay, swept over him as he entered the banqueting-hall, where, but for his many misfortunes — as he callously called h is crimes — he would one day have sat at the bridegroom's table beside Gilda, his plighted wife.
No, it was best that Elizabeth Cardwell believe I had callously sold the lovely Dina of Turia.
Mary Blandy, who callously slew her father with arsenic supplied her by her lover at Henley-on-Thames in 1751, has been a subject for many criminological essayists.
He trusted few, especially the fairer sex, and callously used his spectacular looks to practice his amorous wiles.
I stated callously, spooning away at the leeks like a true market gardener's grandson, 'would make Medusa's snakes look as harmless as a pot of fishing worms!
He recalled Narrin, the idiot slave in the jail, and wondered if slavery itself produced mental deficiency, or if impaired children were callously sold to the traders.
The PLM callously ignores the plight of the poorest and most desperate human beings on our planet in order to keep fat politicians in office, rich news anchors on the air, and conniving lawyers in Mercedes-Benz convertibles.