Deliberately Cruel or Callous

Deliberately cruel or callous crossword clue. QUICK CROSSWORD at Scottish Daily Mail on 25 May 2017. 11 letters 2 words (4-7)

The answer is COLD-BLOODEDLY

Cold-blooded is an informal term for one or more of a group of characteristics that determine an animal’s thermophysiology. These include:

– ectothermy, controlling body temperature through external metabolic processes, such as by basking in the sun
– poikilothermy, the ability of an organism to function over a wide internal temperature range
– bradymetabolism, the ability to greatly alter metabolic rate in response to need; for example, animals that hibernate