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Sentence Examples Most small business employers aren't callous mongrels who sack workers unfairly or at the drop of a hat to gain a sense of power. Jasmine felt a deep stab of anger at that callous comment and she glared at him. Under its sugarcoating of carefree decadence lies a remarkably cruel and callous film. More than rage, it was a pity that filled me on seeing this callous indifference all around. This just excuses all cruel and callous behavior and makes the recipient of it the one to bear the burden. Sadly, there is big money in rare species, but this is a very cruel and callous type of crime, and one we are anxious to stamp out. If only you new the truth you would hang your head in shame at your ignorance and callous disregard for the suffering of your fellow Australians. Certainly, there is no denying that these cruel and callous acts were terrorism. But despite the ineluctable force of modernization it's surprising how strongly and deeply rooted this callous disregard for women is. The whole arms business has made top politicians, of both main parties, increasingly callous and insensitive. When a plant is injured, it develops a callous over the wound as protection. Before you think that I sound cold-hearted and callous, I want to point out that I've worked with the handicapped before. Practice compassion, conquering callous, cruel and insensitive feelings toward all beings. Even by the standards of guerrilla warfare, he is a conspicuously callous figure. Note the grooved callous on the second digit, into which the pen fits like a ladle into a gravy-boat. Enforcing the isolation of this callow and callous ruler is the least that a humane and pacific foreign policy must aim for. They are dangerous, they are callous and they need taking out of circulation as quickly as possible. His character is appropriately cold and callous part of the time, but also sappily emotional and childish part of the time. Male or female, they can be insensitive, callous, immature, selfish, proud, and chauvinistic. Lucy was brutally taken from us in a malicious, callous and evil way leaving a gap in our lives never to be filled. Show More Sentences The callous yobs scattered cuddly toys, flowers and a red heart left decorating the tiny graveside around the cemetery. He is particularly scathing about one member whom he characterises as callous, spineless and non-confrontational to the point of duplicity. In doing so, mankind has become callous and his senses have become dull to the ultimate pleasure this relationship would offer. His callous, matter-of-fact handling of the ropes, straps and paraphernalia of violent death was a despicable sight to see. In both instances the callous bystander can foresee serious injury if he does nothing. She was left distraught after callous thieves stole the wheelchair from outside her flat in Godric Place. The result is warm, humane and a compelling counter to the callous creed of Social Darwinists. Treating people like pawns and playthings in your own private emotional board game is cruel and callous. Mr O'Gorman said the Church had continually fought compensation cases in a callous manner showing no regard for the victims concerned. In humanitarian terms it can be defended, though it often appears callous and short-sighted. It also, more disturbingly, shows us up as a people who are appallingly irresponsible, callous and who have devalued and degraded human life. Jones proves to be a sympathetic director, coaxing Pepper to one of his most convincing performances as a callous, black-hearted wretch. I know this sounds callous and uncaring of those victims who suffered abuse at the hands of priests and religious. His callous disregard for the priest also showed itself in his subsequent failure to discover whether he was dead or alive. But I've been regretting my undauntedness because it makes me seem callous to my wife's difficulty with the wait. It was also callous, slapdash and neglectful of the interests of less secure and well paid workers. Already, its callous indifference to the plight of the local population is fuelling growing resentment. Most of these captive elephants live in dirty conditions and suffer from poor treatment and callous management. I examined a small callous on the middle finger of my left hand, right underneath my fingernail. When he does mention the unmentionable, as an aside, the effect is callous. Show More Sentences There can be nothing more unsocial and callous than smoking in a crowded public place such as a cinema or a bus stand. The other extreme of inelegant solution is to become callous and indifferent to the suffering of others. Police have described the crime as despicable and urged members of the public to help them catch the callous thief. This explains in part why slaves were often brutalized by the callous administration of cruel punishments. This government is the most spineless, intellectually dishonest, corrupt, incompetent and callous administration this Federation has ever known. You must repent of any callous attitude to the right use of the means God has purposed to accomplish his will. I don't think I'm a cruel or callous person, and I don't want to think that what happened to me made me into one. I guess this means I don't need to feel I went wrong somewhere raising someone who has become such a cruel and callous snob? People capable of that sort of uncaring and cruelly callous behavior tend to move on to humans if they are not stopped early enough. He was knocked to the floor by a cold and callous killer, which left him totally defenceless on the floor. By defending his blundering ways, this self-serving little weasel shows callous disregard for that poor little girl. All of them are presented as taking place in an environment of such reckless irresponsibility and callous disregard of the value of human life as to strain credulity. Is this the picture of a callous culture that chews these young men up and spits them out? The deal, critics charge, was at best a bad one and at worst, a callous political move. Customer awareness is growing in part because the average buyer is fed up with callous treatment by apathetic clerks and know-nothing customer-service agents. How could I be so callous when the poor creature was still alive? A callous and utterly botched effort, but even if just a sidelight to this execution, it fits the execution like a favorite glove. Cuts that make sense during discussions on Capitol Hill can seem callous in Hinesville. It was a tough callous and he pressed a little too hard when, zip, the extremely sharp Barlow knife cut right through the connecting skin between his thumb and the forefinger. Many therapists have been told that they are more sensitive, intelligent and compassionate than the patient's callous, self-involved, demanding and critical spouse. Show More Sentences A callous burglar who stole one pensioner's life savings and left another in tears after tricking his way into her home and stealing her purse, has been jailed for five years. This concern often stands in marked contrast with the callous and greedy unconcern of the current wielders of power and influence in the Middle East. More than likely their communication was very poor, but for the authorities to maintain that they were not seeking asylum and send them to Indonesia was callous and unfeeling. It was a calculated, callous attempt to undermine Castro and the Cuban Government, essentially bludgeoning the Cubans to the point where the country would become ungovernable. Because it is just another bit of London pavement, albeit one that shows one of the many scars of this strange, brutal, callous, extraordinary city. Why didn't I bombard him with cruel, viciously callous words? Some might call him insensitive, callous even, but he believes there's some plain talk that America and a large part of the rest of the world needs to hear. A lack of judgment and an indifference that might be termed callous is nothing, however, compared with the alternative scenario that suggests itself. By holding on to the bulk of the land to the detriment of the millions of suffering peasants, the white farmers were made to look greedy and callous. How dare they show such callous disregard for all the above points? Heart-rendingly, though, callous, unthinking vandals smashed the glass and it was eventually removed. His meanness toward religious people was unbearably callous and smug. This could explain why psychopathic individuals can be callous and socially cunning at the same time. A CHARITY has been targeted by callous thieves who stole six go-karts and a four-seater pedal car from Cardiff Bay at the weekend. Plummer, the callous carouser who was already a noted Shakespearean actor in Canada, was summoned to England by the Royal Shakespeare Company. She's not so much manic or pixie as flighty and, frankly, callous. Carthage too was in the hands of the vaniloquent and extravagant Hasdrubal, gross in appearance and utterly callous. He is callous and unfeeling, with no sympathy for either the animals in his experiments or his subordinate, Stephen Powell. She was so callous that she could criticise a cancer patient for wearing a wig. The Spaniards have become callous by the long rule of despotism, and especially of priestdom. Show More Sentences Once again remote number-crunchers have displayed a callous lack of loyalty to the people whose hard work and skills helped forge a company's success and reputation. I remember once being involved in the production of a film that was made to the accompaniment of howls that would have put the most callous laugh-track to shame. Examples from Classical Literature Notwithstanding her action in this matter, Lisa was not an ill-natured or callous woman. The presence of old splits is often indicated by a ridge of callous, the result of the cambium's effort to occlude the wound. The possibility flashed on me when I was half-mad with rage and disappointment at the callous cruelty of the aristo Council. Was she really so callous, so thick-skinned that she was immune from insult? Is it the frequency of the punishment that has made you callous to the ignominy and the pain? I think you will be able to take care of yourself in a cold and callous world. Imogen was deaf to their expostulations, and indurate and callous as adamant to their persuasions. Can we consistently blame her if she becomes callous, when every legal provision directly tends to indurate her sensibilities? He was hardened, steeped in guilt, and callous as to the sufferings of others. But the callous act of the shore patrol argued a state of war carried to fanatic proportions, perhaps inter-racial conflict. Breaks your rart to see the callous sardness of the human race, every luxury and ease themselves and cold as sice to others. Was there any human father who could be so callous, so neglectful, so cruel, as that? In the background the moon glinted in derision, and directly overhead was a splatter of callous stars. Of all the stupid pieces of brutality I ever heard of, this is the most callous and the most heartbreaking. What a gladdening result for the sensation-loving minds of the callous! As a boy, in his cowpuncher days, he had been hard and callous. Therefore I read with a callous heart the effusions of the Belgian damsel. And I thought how strangely callous we were, how superficial our sympathy. Old Madge was usually as callous to such things as I was myself. Its appeal to the heart is direct end unequivocal, and nothing but callous indifference can resist its power. Show More Sentences Before I get to that study, a few words about the callous obliviousness so prevalent in our political life. It is odd how one gets callous to death, a mediaeval callousness. The umbilicus is partially closed by an entering callous plug. The disgrace is nameless, only they are callous enough not to feel it. Think what overwrought reverence that shows for the turnip, and what callous disrespect for the girl. The yezidis seem more callous to smoke even than the Kurds and Syrians. Theirs was a callous, abominable, almost revolting, pertinacity. It seemed to him, accustomed to the callous and hopeless appearance of a less happy tribe, that the faces of these people were all aflame with the joy of the springtime. The callous palms of the laborer are conversant with finer tissues of self-respect and heroism, whose touch thrills the heart, than the languid fingers of idleness. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of callous? Words that rhyme with callous What is the past tense of callous? What is the plural of callous? What is the adverb for callous? What is the adjective for callous? What is the noun for callous? Translations for callous Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words Callot callot Callosum callosity callosities callose calloused callouses callously callousness callout call out 7-letter Words Starting With c ca cal call callo callou