Synonyms:
callous, indurate, pachydermatous
Meaning: emotionally hardened; "a callous indifference to suffering"; "cold-blooded and indurate to public opinion"
verb
meaning of the word
Synonyms:
callous, cauterize, cauterise
Meaning: make insensitive or callous; deaden feelings or morals
Usage examples
It is really most callous of you to laugh
Callous indifference and explosions from strain alternate.
In the excess of their own misery they were callous to the suffering of their animals.
I made lint all the time; stay, sir, look, it is your fault, I have a callous on my fingers."
"Are we growing callous, or are we losing our wits through living at such high temperature?" the Duchess asked.
A piano player cannot be a base-ball player: the one requires soft and supple hands, the other hard and callous ones.
It was but a small place, and new callous places on her hands indicated that she was doing the cooking and all other work.
In the course of a month or two after the receipt of the books Jude had grown callous to the shabby trick played him by the dead languages.
A sharp experience had made him as thoroughly a man of the world as a man may be; but it had not made him callous or indifferent to the beauties of life.