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Recent Examples of inhumane For nearly that long, Netherlands’ capital and most populous city has avoided public dialogue about Dutch peoples’ inhumane treatment of Black people during Dutch colonial history. Ron Stodghill, Miami Herald, 29 Jan. 2025 In November, animal welfare groups filed federal lawsuits against the plan in Oregon and Washington calling the strategy inhumane and alleging violations of federal laws. Adrian Rodriguez, The Mercury News, 28 Jan. 2025 And some would posit, in some ways, and inhumane choice to compel. Steve Inskeep, NPR, 15 Jan. 2025 The training was, by modern standards, inhumane and grueling. Scott Travers, Forbes, 11 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for inhumane
Recent Examples of Synonyms for inhumane
Adjective
  • The film follows Bryan, a Korean American teenager who wants out of his ruthless gang the Goblins, setting the stage for gang retribution against him.
    Zac Ntim, Deadline, 7 Mar. 2025
  • But Harrison’s anti-expansionist successor, Grover Cleveland, abhorred the ruthless U.S. meddling in Hawaiian affairs.
    Robert W. Merry, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 7 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • As mere surrogates, the Trump-DeSantis fight to outdo each other through mean and cruel policies will go on.
    Letters to the Editor, Orlando Sentinel, 6 Mar. 2025
  • Immigration advocates call the crackdown cruel and wrongheaded and warn that many Latino U.S. citizens will likely suffer violations of their civil rights and possibly even get mistakenly deported.
    Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News, 6 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Back then, residents of the burgeoning Los Angeles area had no idea a merciless killer was lurking in their midst until Feb. 2, 1928, when the headless, naked body of a teenage boy was found in a ditch on a dusty road near the sleepy suburb of La Puente.
    KC Baker, People.com, 15 Mar. 2025
  • The draft being held in Pittsburgh meant the Flyers were subject to merciless booing.
    Joshua Kloke, The Athletic, 8 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • The avalanche at Tunnel Creek in the Cascade Mountains involved a large group of ski industry professionals and resulted in three brutal fatalities.
    Ashley Thess, Outdoor Life, 14 Mar. 2025
  • Conquest is a much more brutal Viltrumite than Nolan.
    Jordan Moreau, Variety, 14 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Contrary to what many people believe, pit bulls don't naturally have a bad temperament, are not inherently vicious, and are not more dangerous than other dogs.
    Faisal Kutty, Newsweek, 12 Mar. 2025
  • At age 55, the director of the vicious South Korean social satire Parasite specializes in adolescent appeal.
    Armond White, National Review, 12 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • As savage Arctic cold was getting ready to surge south across North America, vivid imagery based on data from weather models showed us what was going to happen.
    Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 27 Dec. 2022
  • The 2023 grand marshal is former Arizona Democratic congresswoman Gabby Giffords, gravely wounded in a savage mass shooting in 2011 that also killed six people.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 27 Dec. 2022

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“Inhumane.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inhumane. Accessed 18 Mar. 2025.

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