calloused
adjective
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adj
Etymology: Etymology tree English callous English -ed English calloused From callous + -ed.
- Alternative form of callused.
“It was inconceivable, it astounded him, that this slender, beautiful girl of scarcely twenty should have anything, even a bitter enmity, in common with this crime-calloused man of fifty”
“Fingers bruised from lifting boxes on the warehouse floor, palms calloused from delivery bike handlebars, knuckles scarred with kitchen burns: These are not hands that have been allowed to hold power.”