callous
Étymologie
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Adjectif
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- Endurci, sans-cœur.
Much of his past was unearthed, indeed, and all disreputable: tales came out of the man's cruelty, at once so callous and violent, of his vile life, of his strange associates, of the hatred that seemed to have surrounded his career; but of his present whereabouts, not a whisper.
— (Robert Louis Stevenson, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, 1885)
Dérivés
modifierApparentés étymologiques
modifier- callus (cal)
Vocabulaire apparenté par le sens
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