callous

CEFRC1

/ˈkæləs/

adjective

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Sits at C1 on the CEFR scale

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Having calluses, or relating to calluses.
Emotionally hardened; unfeeling and indifferent to the suffering/feelings of others.

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Re-watching some of the audition rounds of these shows now, you're struck by how callous the judges' comments often were, and how they presented a cruel spectacle in which the audience were set up to laugh at the "deluded" members of the public who believed they could sing.
2021 September 15, Laura Martin, “How talent shows became TV's most bizarre programmes”, in BBC
Hanson was beginning to feel annoyance at the suddenly cocksure and unsympathetic girl, but he stood fully erect and flexed his muscles. There wasn't even a trace of bedsoreness, though he had been flat on his back long enough to grow callouses.
1963, Lester del Rey, The Sky Is Falling

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From Latin callōsus (“hard-skinned”), from callum (“hardened skin”) + -ōsus.