Example sentences for: callous

How can you use “callous” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • I wouldn't be so callous as to suggest that stalking isn't an urgent problem, fully worthy of immediate action by a Congress that can't pass a budget on time.

  • He tries to disarm the accusation that he was callous about executing Karla Fay Tucker by portraying his decision as an anguished crisis of conscience.

  • Nor is it the result of the benign policies of national governments, which are as callous and corrupt as ever.

  • An op-ed by Indian journalist Sunanda K. Datta-Ray in the International Herald Tribune highlighted India's dilemma: "India has to walk a delicate path between capitulation to the hijackers and appearing callous about the hostages.

  • Neil LaBute's follow-up to last year's Sundance sensation, In the Company of Men , is just as nasty as his first film and leaves critics arguing over whether the writer/director is trying to make a moral point or just delights in inventing callous bastards.


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