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单词 callousness
释义
callouscal‧lous /ˈkæləs/ adjective Word Origin
WORD ORIGINcallous
Origin:
1300-1400 Old French calleux, from Latin callosus, from callus; CALLUS
Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • the callous slaughter of thousands of civilians
  • The company showed callous disregard for the safety of their employees.
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • A slightly callous, but very practical attitude.
  • At such times l thought their laughter callous and hated them.
  • Call me callous, but I see it as Darwinism.
  • Five days afterwards, callous Paul used the same bat to play baseball.
  • It may have seemed callous to the nurses, but I desperately needed that time to myself.
  • Nor are undertakers alone in careless and callous behaviour.
  • The press, in its callous, cynical way, was suspicious of the pro-gram at first and called it pure symbolism.
  • This occurs not so much because the engineers are callous, but because of a blinkered approach by all parties.
not caring that other people are suffering:  We were shocked at the callous disregard for human life. a callous attitude the callous slaughter of sealscallously adverbcallousness noun [uncountable]
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