Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | English word CALLOUSLY

Definitions of CALLOUSLY

1. In a callous manner; done without regard to others' sensitivities.

Examples of Using CALLOUSLY in a Sentence

• In the novel, the metaphor of the "fourth dimension" is used to explain a societal shift from a generation of people who have traditional values of interdependence, being overtaken by a modern generation who believe in expediency, callously using political power to bring down the old order.
• However, the rebelling workers then callously cause mass death and injuries among commuters, and the true protagonist is revealed to be the director working effectively and courageously to put down the rebellion.
• Its members, the Lords and Ladies of the Instrumentality, are collectively all-powerful and often somewhat callously arbitrary.
• The situation was aggravated by a letter Beatrice then received from her elder sister Victoria Melita ("Ducky"), in which Michael was blamed for having callously initiated the doomed romance (when, a couple of years later Ducky, having divorced her first cousin Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse, was told that remarriage to another first cousin, Grand Duke Kirill Vladimirovich, would likewise be forbidden by the Tsar, she refused to take no for an answer; the couple eloped into exile).
• Astro goes along with his new name and lives with the children and their fatherly figure, Hamegg, who appears to care for broken robots, but secretly treats robots just as callously as Stone, and also runs the Robot Games: destructive gladiatorial matches in which robots are forced to fight to the death.
• Together, they encounter and stave off malign opponents: Zofis, who brainwashes his own partner Koko along with other humans to pair them with Mamodo from the previous tournament; Rioh, who callously risks the entire Earth for the crown; Zeno Bell, Zatch's malevolent twin brother; and Clear Note, who subsequently defeats all of Zatch's allies.
• Ned is horrified to see Worthy's corpse being burnt in a massive bonfire on Kindling Night, where it had been callously tossed among the scarecrows.
• Cyclone Tracy (1974): Hoodoo Gurus' song "Tojo", from the 1984 album Stoneage Romeos, personifying Tracy as callously justifying hitting Darwin by the fact that the city was spared from Japanese invasion during World War II.
• In “The Varioni Brothers,” the brilliant songwriter Sonny Varioni appropriates his brother Joe’s lyric-writing talents and callously preempts the younger man’s realization of his own genius as a prose writer.
• Subsequent to coercing his employees into labor on Christmas Eve, Daffy adamantly expects their return at dawn on Christmas Day to cater to last-minute shoppers, callously disregarding their familial obligations.
• After the ape is loaded onto his truck, the scientist callously pushes the man into the gorilla's grasp and stolidly watches as the beast wrings his neck.
• The book and movie depicted many of the team's players as carousing, drug-abusing partiers callously used by the team and then tossed aside when they became too injured to continue playing productively.
• After hearing the segment, Kao Kalia Yang and others complained that her uncle's viewpoints had been dismissed or edited out, that interviewer Robert Krulwich had treated them callously, and that the overall approach to the story had been racist.
• Additional flashback sequences to Texas, show how Duke and Donnie embarked upon their sadistic rampage of rape and murder as they callously slayed a succession of innocent young women, proving that they were behind the Crosscut killings.
• Porter (21 December 1967) he described the behaviour of both parties as "disgusting" and made the memorable remark: "It is a strange paradox of our times that concurrently with so much alertness to personal rights, very many people flagrantly and callously do serious hurt to the feelings, rights and properties of others and expect immunity for their trespasses".
• During the conversation, Joan mentions that she briefly began working as a charlady for an art dealer, Roland Pernell, for seven pounds a week, although Pernell callously deducted three pounds from her salary for "tax reasons" (it was actually due to the fact that she was a woman).
• At a beach, Scowler follows a herd of Edmontosaurus to find food, callously leaving Patchi and Juniper behind.
• Sackett reported that “Louis callously recovered from the pain of his mistress’s passing and, to Abrams’s rueful astonishment, seemed to take a new lease on life” in Mr.
• Tragically, Bimbisara passes away when imperialism Ashoka becomes bloodthirsty and callously decapitates all his kins.
• As evidence these critics have highlighted characters such as Syd the pornographer, who "embodies the worst stereotypes about Jewish culture and its relationship with mercantilism", and Gerry the people smuggler, who callously exploits migrant workers in his warehouse to for his own personal gain, as examples rather than interrogations, of anti-Semitism.
• Hughie is viewed as a genuinely decent guy by most people who know him, and he has several times risked himself to try to help people who were vulnerable or victimized: his rage over Swingwing callously killing a young man in #10, his attempts to save G-Wiz, and trying to fight the horrifically powerful Malchemical to defend Superduper in #43.

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