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    callous - Dictionary definition and meaning for word callous

    Definition
    (verb) make insensitive or callous; deaden feelings or morals
    Synonyms : cauterise , cauterize
    Definition
    (adj) emotionally hardened
    Synonyms : indurate , pachydermatous
    Example Sentence
    • a callous indifference to suffering
    • cold-blooded and indurate to public opinion
    Definition
    (adj) having calluses; having skin made tough and thick through wear
    Synonyms : calloused , thickened
    Example Sentence
    • calloused skin
    • with a workman's callous hands
   Mnemonics (Memory Aids) for callous

callous sounds like khallas so jiski sub kuch khallas ho gayi hai..that person becomes hard, insensitive and unfeeling.

call(CALL)o(OH)US(U.S)..Oh U.S Please Call Us for MS and dont be so unkind,hardened and unfeeling..!!!

callous - call out,someone who pretends didn't listen when you call his name,callous

callous sounds like KHALLAS(Hindi)....so jiski sensitivity khallas ho gayi hai

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Kallis (Jacques Kallis, SA) is such an insensitive (callous)batsman. He would beat Indian bowlers like anything.

read it like CARELESS so when a person is pinched or pierced if he doesn't react its bcuz his skin is insensitive may be due to some anesthesia (Just imagine)

police says call-o-us if somebody is callous towards you

Man, how insensitive you are, just tell are you going to CALL-US or not......?

KHAROOS

callous- hell on us. he was so heartless.he thought " hell on us"

remember colosseum in italy were barbaric cruel fights were fought(gladiator mvie)

police says call-o-us if somebody is callous towards you

it's sounds like south african batsman KALLIS who has no emotion for indian bowler

call ous(aswath) who is hardened unfeeling for others.

Engineering students become callous to education after graduation because that is teh maximum any human brain can handle lol

sounds like "kaala" in hindi.so,"dil se kaala" means insensitive,unkind

sounds like carlos ... so you can imagine the unkind and unfeeling villian ;)

Callous comes from Callum means skin or Khaal in Indian languages. Any one who has hard rough khaal is unfeeling even in emotion...

doctor call us to say that we had insensitive thick skin

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