as in cruelty
disposition to willfully inflict pain and suffering on others
man's inhumanity to man has been a recurring theme in human history
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Recent Examples of inhumanity
This distinction is what keeps Rawls’s view from lapsing into inhumanity.
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Becca Rothfeld, Harper's Magazine, 2 Mar. 2024
Nonetheless, the authorities have responded by instigating fear and treating citizens with inhumanity.
—Maryia Sadouskaya-Komlach, Foreign Affairs, 18 Aug. 2020
Throughout his diary, excerpts of which we are honored to share today with our readers, Navalny writes with a fierce moral clarity about the inhumanity of Vladimir Putin’s regime, and about the power of its opposite force—the humanity of his fellow-countrymen.
—David Remnick, The New Yorker, 11 Oct. 2024
Carreira is not interested in vilifying individuals but in teasing out the inhumanity of working conditions that grind people down little by little.
—Sophie Monks Kaufman, IndieWire, 6 Sep. 2024
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Becca Rothfeld, Harper's Magazine, 2 Mar. 2024
Nonetheless, the authorities have responded by instigating fear and treating citizens with inhumanity.
—Maryia Sadouskaya-Komlach, Foreign Affairs, 18 Aug. 2020
Throughout his diary, excerpts of which we are honored to share today with our readers, Navalny writes with a fierce moral clarity about the inhumanity of Vladimir Putin’s regime, and about the power of its opposite force—the humanity of his fellow-countrymen.
—David Remnick, The New Yorker, 11 Oct. 2024
Carreira is not interested in vilifying individuals but in teasing out the inhumanity of working conditions that grind people down little by little.
—Sophie Monks Kaufman, IndieWire, 6 Sep. 2024
See All Example Sentences for inhumanity
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“Inhumanity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inhumanity. Accessed 31 Mar. 2025.
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