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as in ruthless
having or showing a lack of sympathy or tender feelings
inhumane wardens who regularly ignored the crying children in their care
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as in cruel
having or showing the desire to inflict severe pain and suffering on others
an inhumane dictator who tortured and murdered thousands of his own people
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Recent Examples of inhumane
Joe Raedle/Getty Images/Hulton Archive The last day of March commemorates labor activist and civil rights icon Cesar Chavez, whose fight to better the lives of the nation's farmworkers helped improve the inhumane working conditions of the vital, but often overlooked industry.
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Alana Wise, NPR, 31 Mar. 2025
The embrace of comedic memes contrast an immigration crackdown that has sparked legal challenges and warnings about the inhumane conditions faced by detainees.
—Ivana Saric, Axios, 29 Mar. 2025
The horrendous, inhumane behavior of the Russian military in Ukraine is beyond belief.
—Askold Haywas, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Mar. 2025
Earlier this month, Amnesty International produced a report that outlined how Russian authorities had subjected Ukrainian POWs and civilian captives to torture, prolonged incommunicado detention, enforced disappearance and other inhumane treatment.
—David Faris, Newsweek, 17 Mar. 2025
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Alana Wise, NPR, 31 Mar. 2025
The embrace of comedic memes contrast an immigration crackdown that has sparked legal challenges and warnings about the inhumane conditions faced by detainees.
—Ivana Saric, Axios, 29 Mar. 2025
The horrendous, inhumane behavior of the Russian military in Ukraine is beyond belief.
—Askold Haywas, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Mar. 2025
Earlier this month, Amnesty International produced a report that outlined how Russian authorities had subjected Ukrainian POWs and civilian captives to torture, prolonged incommunicado detention, enforced disappearance and other inhumane treatment.
—David Faris, Newsweek, 17 Mar. 2025
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O’Neil had shown a more ruthless streak in dealing with Lemina, stripping the midfielder of the captaincy after those embarrassing post-match scenes at West Ham.—
Steve Madeley,
New York Times,
21 Apr. 2025
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There is the ruthless spymaster Luthen Rael (Stellan Skarsgård) and his mysterious assistant Kleya (Elizabeth Dulau).—
Erik Kain,
Forbes.com,
21 Apr. 2025
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But this is the cruel and unreasonable state of this Administration's deportation policy.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
MSNBC Newsweek,
24 Apr. 2025
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Such evidence could support the view that incessant loud noise amounts to torture or cruel treatment towards cetaceans, in turn galvanizing support for a new right to be free from such harm.—
David Gruber,
Time,
24 Apr. 2025
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Inspired by Lauren’s late mother, Adele, who was diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer’s at the age of 55, their family knows that this merciless disease is no laughing matter.—
Jeff Conway,
Forbes.com,
17 Apr. 2025
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Lottie proposes that Natalie be stripped of her title and that the merciless and vicious Shauna should lead them instead.—
Erin Qualey,
Vulture,
14 Mar. 2025
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This high school student completed a brutal swim across New Zealand's 13.67-mile Cook Strait 02:16 CNN — Maya Merhige eventually stopped counting her jellyfish stings, such was the frequency with which they were getting scorched against her skin.—
George Ramsay,
CNN Money,
30 Apr. 2025
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Domestic overcapacity and brutal internal competition have already pushed Chinese firms to expand abroad in search of profit margins.—
Zongyuan Zoe Liu,
Foreign Affairs,
29 Apr. 2025
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Sandhagen dispatched Edgar with a vicious flying knee 28 seconds into that bout.—
Trent Reinsmith,
Forbes.com,
28 Apr. 2025
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In its most memorable moment, Walker dispatches a particularly vicious henchwoman with a harpoon to the neck.—
Mike Miller,
EW.com,
26 Apr. 2025
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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
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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 4 May. 2025.
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