callousness
Collocations
4ADJ.
known, local
VERB + CALLOUSNESS
argued, shattered
CALLOUSNESS + NOUN
panhandlers
ADV.
completely
Definitions
noun
The quality of being callous; emotional hardheartedness or indifference.
Fred was known for his callousness; local panhandlers had long since learned not to try their sob stories on him.
To have killed Laploshka was one thing; to have kept his beloved money would have argued a callousness of feeling of which I was not capable.
The quality of having calluses.
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3Fred was known for his callousness; local panhandlers had long since learned not to try their sob stories on him.
WiktionaryTo have killed Laploshka was one thing; to have kept his beloved money would have argued a callousness of feeling of which I was not capable.
Wiktionary"The image of workers who had embraced each other as concrete crushed them — that final act of human kindness in the face of death — shattered my callousness completely."
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