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Callous meaning

  1. Emotionally hardened; unfeeling and indifferent to the suffering/feelings of others.
  2. Having calluses, or relating to calluses.

Synonyms of Callous

indurate inure cauterise cauterize toughened tough thickened calloused insensitive pachydermatous harden

Using Callous

  • The main meaning on this page is: Emotionally hardened; unfeeling and indifferent to the suffering/feelings of others. | Having calluses, or relating to calluses.
  • Useful related words include: indurate, inure, cauterise, cauterize.
  • In the example corpus, callous often appears in combinations such as: and callous, callous and, callous disregard.

Context around Callous

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 28.1 words
  • Position in the sentence: 3 start, 10 middle, 7 end
  • Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Corpus analysis for Callous

  • In this selection, "callous" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 28.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, secretly, took, blooded, disregard, teen and conduct stand out and add context to how "callous" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include a callous teen urged and a secretly callous monster for. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "callous" sits close to words such as architectures, atv and bader, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with callous

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

In a tweet, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak condemned the “callous and cowardly” condemnation. (14 words)

The callous buffoonery of Boris Johnson as thousands died during the worst of the pandemic. (15 words)

A callous teen urged his ex-girlfriend to kill herself and mocked her father’s death. (16 words)

I have a fair amount of sympathy for your fiancée, who I don’t think is necessarily a secretly callous monster for making a grim joke about not having to deal with in-laws to a friend of hers, but I can also understand why this would haunt you. (49 words)

A rare non-Western for Wayne, The Wake of the Red Witch finds him playing the corrupt and callous Captain Ralls, who scuttles the Red Witch after his employer, a Dutch shipping baron (Luther Adler) steals and marries the woman he loves (Gail Russell). (44 words)

Judge Gamble called the case “striking for just how vulnerable each of the two victims were and for the calculating way” in which Leifer “took callous advantage of those vulnerabilities in order to sexually abuse them for her own sexual gratification”. (41 words)

Example sentences (20)

A callous teen urged his ex-girlfriend to kill herself and mocked her father’s death.

A judge subsequently ordered McDonald's to pay $200,000 in compensatory damages and $2.7 million in punitive damages for McDonald’s callous conduct, the Texas Trial Lawyers Association said.

And the award for most callous reporting about the calamitous wildfires on Maui goes to Canadian news.

A rare non-Western for Wayne, The Wake of the Red Witch finds him playing the corrupt and callous Captain Ralls, who scuttles the Red Witch after his employer, a Dutch shipping baron (Luther Adler) steals and marries the woman he loves (Gail Russell).

A stunned Bayern coach Tuchel said after the game that his side were punished by a Frankfurt team who were callous in front of goal.

But my story this week is about the callous, State-sanctioned murders of innocent Zimbabweans by the Mnangagwa regime and the resultant Presidential Commission of Inquiry whose recommendations have been largely ignored.

Calling out the state government’s callous approach in the case, the Supreme Court questioned why the victim’s father’s statement that his child was targeted because of his religious identity was not mentioned in the FIR copy.

Divyanka Tripathi's remarks were criticised online as being callous, especially in light of the recent devastating earthquakes that occurred in Turkey and Syria.

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Her horsefeathers are still called a “courageous stand” against men, even if it was just one, a non-harasser struggling, in a callous university environment, with the anguish of coping with the suffering and death of his young son.

However, Narnaware said the execution of the work lacks momentum despite the pendency of this PIL for the last five years, and authorities have shown a callous attitude in implementing the project.

I have a fair amount of sympathy for your fiancée, who I don’t think is necessarily a secretly callous monster for making a grim joke about not having to deal with in-laws to a friend of hers, but I can also understand why this would haunt you.

In 1993, she won the Pulitzer Prize for The Wild Iris, an exchange in part between a beleaguered gardener and a callous deity.

In a tweet, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak condemned the “callous and cowardly” condemnation.

Judge Gamble called the case “striking for just how vulnerable each of the two victims were and for the calculating way” in which Leifer “took callous advantage of those vulnerabilities in order to sexually abuse them for her own sexual gratification”.

Mr Collisson had been recently released from a prison sentence he was serving for the "cold blooded, callous and cruel shooting" of 17-year-old Shahab Kargarian in 2000.

Mr Sabbagh was shot last month while sitting in a car with his son in what police described as a callous, gangland-style killing.

Others known to be at the end of their life were admitted to hospices only to receive "undignified and callous treatment" that "paid no regard to their, or their families', wishes or concerns".

She said Gordon has shown a "callous disregard" by brandishing a machete in a public area.

So the IRS is rewarded and given the okay to continue its culture of callous disregard for our privacy.

The callous buffoonery of Boris Johnson as thousands died during the worst of the pandemic.

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Common combinations with callous

These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:

Frequently asked questions

How do you use "callous" in a sentence?
An example: "A callous teen urged his ex-girlfriend to kill herself and mocked her father’s death." This page contains 10+ example sentences with the word "callous" from authentic English texts.
What does "callous" mean?
Callous means: Emotionally hardened; unfeeling and indifferent to the suffering/feelings of others.
What are synonyms of "callous"?
Common synonyms of "callous" include: indurate, inure, cauterise, cauterize, toughened, tough, thickened, calloused. Plus 3 more synonyms.
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