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Recent Examples of callousness
The jury further determined that the crimes involved a threat of great bodily harm and demonstrated a high degree of cruelty, viciousness or callousness, the district attorney's office said.
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Richard Ramos,
CBS News,
18 June 2026
Hantz was turning callousness into spectacle and many viewers were hungry for it.
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Shaan Merchant,
Rolling Stone,
20 May 2026
Our chance to take corrective action was lost by our callousness.
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Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
18 May 2026
Antisocial personality includes a persistent pattern of traits such as callousness, lack of concern, deceitfulness, and irresponsibility, Ryan said.
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Harriet Ramos,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
29 Apr. 2026
Our society seems to be spiraling into a vortex of callousness, ignorance, cynicism, violence, intolerance, and hate.
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Rabbi Dan Levin,
Sun Sentinel,
14 Apr. 2026
There’s another nice juxtaposition in this episode, this time highlighting Robby’s callousness.
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Maggie Fremont,
Vulture,
27 Mar. 2026
The killing in the woods of Knoxville demonstrated a brutality and callousness rarely seen in a woman, let alone one so young.
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Amanda Lee Myers,
USA Today,
21 Mar. 2026
Kroshunov's daughter, Ilana Korshunov, expressed shock at the callousness of the driver.
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Anders Hagstrom,
FOXNews.com,
29 Jan. 2026
Richard Ramos,
CBS News,
18 June 2026
Hantz was turning callousness into spectacle and many viewers were hungry for it.
—
Shaan Merchant,
Rolling Stone,
20 May 2026
Our chance to take corrective action was lost by our callousness.
—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
18 May 2026
Antisocial personality includes a persistent pattern of traits such as callousness, lack of concern, deceitfulness, and irresponsibility, Ryan said.
—
Harriet Ramos,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
29 Apr. 2026
Our society seems to be spiraling into a vortex of callousness, ignorance, cynicism, violence, intolerance, and hate.
—
Rabbi Dan Levin,
Sun Sentinel,
14 Apr. 2026
There’s another nice juxtaposition in this episode, this time highlighting Robby’s callousness.
—
Maggie Fremont,
Vulture,
27 Mar. 2026
The killing in the woods of Knoxville demonstrated a brutality and callousness rarely seen in a woman, let alone one so young.
—
Amanda Lee Myers,
USA Today,
21 Mar. 2026
Kroshunov's daughter, Ilana Korshunov, expressed shock at the callousness of the driver.
—
Anders Hagstrom,
FOXNews.com,
29 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for callousness
Noun
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These young graduates start out naive about the heartlessness of the corporate world and harbor illusory hopes for success in unforgiving professions.
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The lives of the two children in the story, aged fourteen and four, are portrayed as being as fleeting as the fireflies, and the story is an unsentimental and unflinching account with moments of both tenderness and heartlessness.
Noun
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The world of Pride and Prejudice expects women to accommodate male pride as a social fact, to smooth over awkwardness, to accept that status and wealth compensate for coldness or indifference.
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Her fierce intelligence helps paper over some of the screenplay’s rougher transitions, and even lends a measure of legibility to Sylvia’s sudden coldness.
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The misstep immediately sparked backlash for cultural insensitivity and drew over 50 million views on Weibo—other Western brands, including H&M, Dolce & Gabbana, Dior, Burberry, and Gucci, have been caught in similar cultural crosshairs.
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Consumers can forgive almost anything—controversy, scandal, provocation, even cultural insensitivity—if the party and the product is good enough.
Noun
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Perhaps the greatest testament to Morocco’s obduracy came late in normal time, when Rodri — a central midfielder being deployed as a central defender — strode forward and shot, more in hope than in expectation, from 35 yards.
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But a year later, more than two dozen of them remain stuck in Afghanistan, stalled by bureaucratic wrangling, the vagaries of international diplomacy and the obduracy of the Taliban government.
Noun
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Grade 5 titanium is notoriously difficult to work with, its hardness rapidly degrading cutting tools and leaving little margin for error.
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Water hardness is measured by the milligrams of calcium carbonate per liter of water(mg/L).
Noun
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The 17-year-old mother, named for a callosity near her blowhole that looks like a snow cone, no longer had the same girth or the dark black skin of a healthy right whale.
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The callosity patterns, like fingerprints, are unique to each whale, allowing researchers who have pored over whale catalogue photos to recognize plenty in the wild.
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“Callousness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/callousness. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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