How to Use inhumane in a Sentence

inhumane

adjective
Definition of inhumanenext
Synonyms for inhumanenext
  • The movie, to its credit, is not inhumane about what happens to the bear.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 23 Feb. 2023
  • That's the biggest issue is no one wants to be inhumane about this.
    — CBS News, 14 May 2023
  • Biden has called the policy inhumane and has vowed to end it.
    — Washington Post, 8 Dec. 2021
  • The way we are told to search for love is fairly inhumane and unworkable.
    — Jessica Goodman, ELLE, 11 Feb. 2022
  • He's been captured and treated in the most inhumane way and has seen the worst of humanity.
    — Christian Holub, EW.com, 31 Aug. 2022
  • The goal of slaveowners was to breed more slaves and make black women appear to be inhumane.
    — Crystal D. Carter, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 16 Aug. 2019
  • But these asylums had often been brutal, inhumane places, and the state had shut them down.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 23 Sep. 2021
  • The fact that people commit inhumane crimes does not give the state the right to treat them inhumanely.
    — Edmund H. Mahony, courant.com, 29 Aug. 2019
  • Does such a precedent open a door for inhumane and cruel laws elsewhere too?
    — Naresh Fernandes, Quartz India, 6 Jan. 2020
  • Many argue that this process, which involves force-feeding the birds, is inhumane.
    — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 10 Feb. 2023
  • But in May 1921, an inhumane act demolished the community in the blink of an eye.
    — Eleanor Pringle, Fortune, 27 June 2024
  • Delaney said the posts are inhumane, disgusting and filled with hate.
    — Chris Sikich, The Indianapolis Star, 29 Oct. 2020
  • Critics have called the buoy system barbaric and inhumane and linked it to the drowning deaths of two migrants last week.
    — Todd J. Gillman, Dallas News, 10 Aug. 2023
  • People in prisons, in detention, are forced to work in inhumane conditions for no pay for the profit of the state.
    — Yoonjung Seo, CNN, 23 Mar. 2023
  • Critics point to issues such as inhumane killing procedures, a plunge in crime rates and the death penalty’s high cost.
    — Kevin O'Neal Cokley, The Conversation, 27 Nov. 2019
  • What’s the latest step in building a new Cuyahoga County jail, to replace the one that has been labeled as inhumane at times?
    — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 1 July 2021
  • Dan Rodricks’ column resonates with the need for hope and prayer in light of the inhumane words and actions of the previous president.
    — Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 3 Jan. 2024
  • In many countries of the world, those who need peace, those suffer inhumane destruction.
    — Amy Nakamura, USA TODAY, 16 Mar. 2022
  • This all seems inhumane and tortuous after knowing that there’s a better way to work and lead your life.
    — Jack Kelly, Forbes, 2 Sep. 2021
  • If his standards were inhumane, then why was Ms. Robb still drawn to the beauty of his choreography?
    — Alex Vadukul, New York Times, 24 Feb. 2023
  • Many Americans came away from the book convinced that end-of-life care in hospitals was inhumane.
    — Ava Kofman, ProPublica, 28 Nov. 2022
  • The 'callous and inhumane' school shooting hoaxes are still happening around the US.
    — Melissa Alonso, CNN, 14 May 2023
  • They were greeted by about a dozen protesters who saw the city’s action as inhumane, but there was no confrontation with the crew.
    — Gary Warth, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 May 2021
  • On the campaign trail, both Biden and Harris decried many of Trump’s border policies as inhumane and vowed to overturn them.
    — Los Angeles Times, 19 Jan. 2022
  • In a visit to Japan in 2019, Pope Francis drew attention to the death penalty,calling it inhumane.
    — Washington Post, 21 Dec. 2021
  • What are the alleged high crimes that warrant such inhumane punishment against Uyghurs?
    — Rep. André Carson, CNN, 17 Dec. 2021
  • The simple, joyful human moments at the beginning of the film are in stark contrast to the inhumane treatment shown later on.
    — Dina Kaur, The Arizona Republic, 9 Dec. 2024
  • Animal rights groups cheered the measure as a stand against inhumane practices.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Oct. 2019
  • Human rights groups have said Hamas’s practice of making and releasing hostage videos was inhumane treatment that could amount to a war crime.
    — Aaron Boxerman, New York Times, 4 Jan. 2025
  • His lawyers argue that Iraqi prisons are inhumane, which would violate U.S. obligations to not forcibly send someone to a country where he might be abused.
    — Carol Rosenberg, New York Times, 9 Jan. 2025

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