Gradgrind

(person) by Tem42 Wed Aug 02 2000 at 3:56:21
A dispassionate, inflexible, buraeucratic person who looks upon other people as items or tools, to be used when useful, but otherwise ignored.

From the unfeeling, utilitarian merchant in Charles Dickens' book Hard Times.

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