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Definition of Callously
1. Adverb. In a callous way. "He callously exploited their feelings"
Definition of Callously
1. Adverb. In a callous manner; done without regard to others' sensitivities. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Callously
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Callously
Literary usage of Callously
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Destruction of Belgium: Germany's Confession and Avoidance by E. Grimwood Mears (1916)
"Their names now appear in these pages and frequently the very men themselves come
forward and depose coldly and callously to acts which have degraded the ..."
2. Structural and Systematic Conchology: An Introduction to the Study of the by George Washington Tryon (1882)
"... peristome very thick, reflected, the extremities connected by a wide callus,
basal portion of lip often callously tuberculate or denticulate within. ..."
3. Structural and Systematic Conchology: An Introduction to the Study of the by George Washington Tryon (1884)
"... aperture transversely oval; peristome very thick, reflected, the extremities
connected by a wide callus, basal portion of lip often callously ..."
4. The English Cyclopaedia by Charles Knight (1870)
"B. Aperture nearly angulated in front, with no canal, and the columella perfectly
plain, not twisted, frequently callously thickened above . ..."
5. Fresh-water Biology by Henry Baldwin Ward, George Chandler Whipple (1918)
"1469). ga (94) Shell globose-conic; columella callously thickened above and below;
aperture shortly channeled below. ..."
6. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia by Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (1864)
"B. Aperture merely angulated in front, with no canal, and the columella perfectly
plain, not twisted, frequently callously thickened above. ..."
7. A Manual of the Mollusca: Being a Treatise on Recent and Fossil Shellsby Samuel Peckworth Woodward, Ralph Tate by Samuel Peckworth Woodward, Ralph Tate (1880)
"Columella callously thickened above and below; base of aperture notched. ...
in front. without a canal; columella frequently callously thickened above; ..."
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