Definition: (adjective) Showing unfeeling resistance to tender feelings.
Synonyms: granitic, obdurate, stony.
Usage: He maintained a hard, careless deportment, indicative of neither joy nor sorrow: if anything, it expressed a flinty gratification at a piece of difficult work successfully executed.
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