callousness

callous | American Dictionary

callous
adjective
us/ˈkæl·əs/
without sympathy or feeling for other people:
As callous as it may sound, trying to help some students is a waste of time.

Examples of callous

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Ethically, such an attitude appears callous and out of character with the momentousness of assisting a patient end her life.
Callous-unemotional traits and developmental pathways to severe conduct problems.
Callous-unemotional traits in predicting the severity and stability of conduct problems and delinquency.
There are brutal stories of callous power that destroys lives and careers.
Still, the worst is his callous business approach: his cold calculations rather than his violent outbursts.
Individuals high on communion value close relationships with others and are warm, not callous.
Finally, wrongful life suits permit children to sue their parents for callous or negligent creation, whereas, their counterparts focus only upon medical misfeasance.
Their surplus numbers generated callous neglect on the part of military leaders and, consequently, frequent evasion of conscription.
For example, in this environment humans will have heavily calloused feet.
The importance of callous-unemotional traits for extending the concept of psychopathic traits to children.
The building is not just the arrogant and callous mimesis of one particular 'style'.
The crucial issues of scientific fraud, callous mistreatment of patients, and the deterioration of the quality of care all have to be addressed.
Overlapping with the antisocial construct, psychopathy is a trait involving callous disregard for others.
However, callous attitudes and perceptions are difficult to document, and modern racism creeps in subtle fashion.
The actions of a significant other may result in a representation of self as victim in the face of a callous, malevolent, or indifferent relational world.
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