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• v  make insensitive or callous; deaden feelings or morals
• s  emotionally hardened
  a callous indifference to suffering
• s  having calluses; having skin made tough and thick through wear
  calloused skin
  with a workman's callous hands

• Grade school textbooks recount the callous brutality of Japanese soldiers in graphic detail, and credit the Communist Party with defeating Japan.
• But they also want to press their claims that Blackwater, in its zeal to exploit this unexpected market for private security men, showed a callous disregard for the safety of its .
• In one America, she's smart, committed, likable, with strong values and empathy for people like them, and in the other she's an ambitious, callous appeaser.

• cauterize
• cauterise
• indurate
• pachydermatous
• calloused
• thickened

News & Articles

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• Prison for Cherry Hill man in boat-sinking plot
  Describing the crime as egregious and callous, U.S. District Judge Renee Marie Bumb in Camden sentenced Scott Tran, 40, a Cherry Hill chiropractor, to 46 months in prison for initiating a botched scheme to scuttle his fishing boat, the Alexander II, for the insurance money.
  June 13, 2013 - The Philadelphia Inquirer
• Missouri disregards the needs of the mentally ill
  Early and consistent treatment would do wonders, but Missouri has shown a callous disregard for its mentally ill citizens.
  June 13, 2013 - The Kansas City Star
• Neil LaBute and the Triumph of the Insult Comments Section
  Neil LaBute is not known as a particularly nice playwright—his vitriol is like a reflex. So when a critic wrote a callous review of his latest Reasons to Be Happy, LaBute jumped straight into the online comments section to chastise him. 
  June 12, 2013 - The Atlantic Wire via Yahoo! News

Quotes

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• Henry Hudson in Wall Street Journal
  You may have thought this was sporting, but it was very callous and cruel,US District Judge Henry Hudson told Mr. Phillips during his sentencing.
• Nancy Pelosi in Reuters Canada
  The testimony unmistakably revealed -- at the highest levels of the Bush administration -- a callous disregard in handling sensitive national security information and a disposition to smear critics of the war in Iraq,said House of...
• Ron Wilson in CBC.ca
  Even though coaching can be a very callous and negative position, my staff and I poured my heart and soul into this,Wilson said. "It is very difficult to talk about this unemotionally."