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Meanings of most callous in English

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Usage of most callous in English
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Annealed as we are, I think it will discompose the most callous.
Shandygaff / A number of most agreeable Inquirendoes upon Life &...
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On the contrary she excited the compassion of the most callous- hearted.
Marguerite Verne; Or, Scenes from Canadian Life
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The sight was sufficient to excite the feelings of the most callous observers.
The Three Commanders
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Again a servant shot and killed in a most callous manner.
Tell me, pretty maiden
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Their appearance was sufficiently hideous to alarm the most callous venturer into the Antarctic.
The Boy Aviators' Polar Dash; or, Facing Death in the Antarctic
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Would I not seem the most callous of wretches to cast her off now?
The Memoirs of Cleopatra
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The killed and wounded in battle present a scene well calculated to move the most callous.
The Colored Regulars in the United States Army
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The most callous of women would have shrunk from letting her curiosity carry her thus far.
Agatha Webb
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It was a joyless union, satisfactory to no one but Mother Nature at her most callous.
The Sirens of Titan
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They would move to pity the most callous heart, if pity could be associated with the rat.
Concerning Animals and Other Matters
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Her heavenly patience in dressing Peter every few hours without comment struck the most callous observer as admirable.
Mother Carey's Chickens
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The most callous of her guests admired her as young Rome applauded some gladiator who could die smiling.
Father Goriot
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Far from it: they have shown you no respect and acted with the most callous disregard for your loving-kindness.
After the quake: stories
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I have a suspicion that the Canon's housekeeper looked on me as the most callous little wretch on earth.
Notes on Life & Letters
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The most callous of mortals.'
Henrietta Temple: A Love Story
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In a most callous and cowardly manner you set upon her … humiliating her before strangling her to death.
News.com.au
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