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Callous \Cal"lous\, a. [L. callosus callous hard, fr. callum,
callus, callous skin: cf. F. calleux.]
1. Hardened; indurated. ``A callous hand.'' --Goldsmith. ``A
callous ulcer.'' --Dunglison.

2. 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.

"One does not shore up the long-term foundations for Sino-American relations by appearing weak to China's leaders and callous to the Chinese and American people," he wrote.
Kennedy said Friday he was troubled by some of Souter's responses to questions, including one where the nominee offered what sounded like a callous explanation.
Poignant moments when young Dr. Abbie Polin (Billy Crystal), reflects on his callous father hang relentlessly on dead air.
Dougie (McDermott) is revealed as the demon of the pair: callous and single-minded, not hesitating to fake a terminal disease if it will help him talk his way inside the sequinned leotard of the new girl in the chorus.
The young poet, so beautiful and so talented, driven to swallow arsenic by a callous world, lies dead across his garret bed, his luxurious red hair hanging above a pile of torn manuscript scraps.
In a letter to Lilly Chairman Richard D. Wood, Mr. Dingell said the FDA report "confirmed that callous and cavalier business practices were commonplace" in the plant.
Dullah Omar, a human rights lawyer who leads the banned United Democratic Front, called the move "utterly disgraceful and callous." "What we were looking forward to was his release, not a transfer from a clinic back to prison," he said.
Presiding Commissioner Rudolph Castro called the crimes among "the most heinous and callous ever committed in California, if not in the nation." The actress' mother, Doris Tate, addressed the board.
"The group was particularly callous in terms of sellin to youths," said Colangelo, who noted that two of the locations were near public schools.
"I think what worked in the show when it worked was the fact that he could seem on one hand to be so callous and miserable, but then what we could learn about was that there was a real sympathetic machine working underneath," he said.
Bad neighbors become good friends in the end; bullies learn humility; loners become team players; and callous children learn the value of family and friendship.
"A lot of people are callous toward this thing," Karnes said Friday of residents of an area that has had chemical plants for decades. "They have been raised with chemicals and they don't see anything wrong with this.
He says the FDIC was shortsighted and callous.
Attorneys who were "callous" toward grieving families are the subject of a grand jury investigation into alleged illegal lawsuit promotion following the deaths of 21 students in a school bus wreck.
ORIGINAL SIN by PD James Faber Pounds 14.99, 432 pages The sin at the heart of PD James' new novel is a callous act of betrayal committed many years ago, before most of her characters were born.
Let them stay in countries neighbouring their own - such as Jordan, for instance, where no fewer than one person in four is recognised as a refugee. That may seem very callous in that it puts the greatest burden on the poorest countries.
Earlier, venting her anger over what she called East St. Louis' "callous disregard" for the court's orders, Ms. O'Brien reinstated an order of March 3 that the city post a $500,000 bond to guarantee its sewers be fixed in 90 days.

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