Dictionary of synonyms

Synonyms and antonyms of the word: callous

Synonyms:

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Usage examples:

A callous teen urged his ex-girlfriend to kill herself and mocked her father’s death.

Source: https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/news/aberdeen-aberdeenshire/6204483/cruel-teen-urged-ex-to-kill-herself-and-mocked-fathers-death/

A judge subsequently ordered McDonald's to pay $200,000 in compensatory damages and $2.7 million in punitive damages for McDonald’s callous conduct, the Texas Trial Lawyers Association said.

Source: https://www.denver7.com/woman-sues-mcdonald-s-after-being-burned-by-hot-coffee

And the award for most callous reporting about the calamitous wildfires on Maui goes to Canadian news.

Source: https://www.buzzfeed.com/morgansloss1/hawaii-fires-tweets

A rare non-Western for Wayne, The Wake of the Red Witch finds him playing the corrupt and callous Captain Ralls, who scuttles the Red Witch after his employer, a Dutch shipping baron (Luther Adler) steals and marries the woman he loves (Gail Russell).

Source: https://screenrant.com/10-great-john-wayne-movies-where-he-wasnt-the-hero/

A stunned Bayern coach Tuchel said after the game that his side were punished by a Frankfurt team who were callous in front of goal.

Source: https://www.citizen.co.za/sport/soccer/world-soccer/bayern-thrashed-by-merciless-frankfurt-in-bundesliga-as-leipzig-win-in-dortmund/

“Because of these vicious acts of terrorism and because of the callous nature of the crimes, Theodore Kaczynski poses a grave danger to society and should be sent to a facility where he can be closely monitored,” Burrell said.

Source: https://krdo.com/news/2023/06/10/ted-kaczynski-known-as-the-unabomber-dies/

'(But) he accepts his guilt on the basis of recklessness … though he was clearly being directed by callous individuals that were involved in an elaborate and sophisticated scam.'

Source: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11975173/German-photo-store-owner-no-criminal-record-duped-taking-meth-Australia.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490

But my story this week is about the callous, State-sanctioned murders of innocent Zimbabweans by the Mnangagwa regime and the resultant Presidential Commission of Inquiry whose recommendations have been largely ignored.

Source: https://nehandaradio.com/2023/08/04/luke-ing-the-beast-in-the-eye-the-motlanthe-commission-of-inquiry-an-expensive-grand-charade/

Calling out the state government’s callous approach in the case, the Supreme Court questioned why the victim’s father’s statement that his child was targeted because of his religious identity was not mentioned in the FIR copy.

Source: https://www.siasat.com/sc-pulls-up-up-govt-over-muslim-student-slapping-incident-2705354/

Divyanka Tripathi's remarks were criticised online as being callous, especially in light of the recent devastating earthquakes that occurred in Turkey and Syria.

Source: https://www.ndtv.com/offbeat/this-is-very-exciting-tv-stars-instagram-post-after-earthquake-slammed-3889865

Her horsefeathers are still called a “courageous stand” against men, even if it was just one, a non-harasser struggling, in a callous university environment, with the anguish of coping with the suffering and death of his young son.

Source: https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/03/10/what-lund-university-did-to-umut-ozkirimli/

However, Narnaware said the execution of the work lacks momentum despite the pendency of this PIL for the last five years, and authorities have shown a callous attitude in implementing the project.

Source: https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/mumbai/deekshabhoomi-development-pil-claims-callous-attitude-work-bombay-hc-nagpur-9072081/

Hundreds of thousands of people continue to protest across the world to demand a ceasefire, yet their calls have gone unheeded by the international community as warring parties continue to display a callous disregard for civilian lives.”

Source: https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2023/11/israel-opt-amnesty-petition-demanding-ceasefire-to-end-civilian-suffering-backed-by-more-than-one-million-signatures/

I have a fair amount of sympathy for your fiancée, who I don’t think is necessarily a secretly callous monster for making a grim joke about not having to deal with in-laws to a friend of hers, but I can also understand why this would haunt you.

Source: https://slate.com/human-interest/2023/01/dear-prudence-grandma-secret-child.html?via=rss

In 1993, she won the Pulitzer Prize for The Wild Iris, an exchange in part between a beleaguered gardener and a callous deity.

Source: https://www.thejournal.ie/in-memoriam-famous-deaths-2023-6234620-Dec2023/

In a tweet, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak condemned the “callous and cowardly” condemnation.

Source: https://tumblerridgenews.com/iran-executes-british-iranian-for-spying/

In the identical ruling, the decide wrote that “trial proof confirmed Fratta to be egotistical, misogynistic, and vile, with a callous want to kill his spouse.”

Source: https://www.mccourier.com/texas-to-execute-ex-cop-for-hiring-2-people-to-kill-wife/

Judge Gamble called the case “striking for just how vulnerable each of the two victims were and for the calculating way” in which Leifer “took callous advantage of those vulnerabilities in order to sexually abuse them for her own sexual gratification”.

Source: https://www.australianjewishnews.com/malka-leifer-sentenced-to-15-years-in-prison/

Liberal Democrat Home Affairs Spokesperson Alistair Carmichael said the morning's media round showed that the Home Secretary couldn't "even answer basic questions about her flawed, callous and inhumane policy."

Source: https://www.heraldscotland.com/politics/23371116.gary-lineker-compares-suella-braverman-migrant-plan-nazis/?ref=rss

Major of London Sadiq Khan said: 'The Government's Rwanda policy isn't just cruel, callous and morally reprehensible, the Supreme Court has today confirmed its unlawful too.'

Source: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12751655/supreme-court-decision-blow-rishi-sunak-rwanda-migrants-plan-legal-suella-braverman.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490