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Recent Examples of inhumane Demissie filed a motion to get Martinez released on the grounds that the conditions in Burlington were inhumane. Ben Adler, USA Today, 14 June 2025 The week’s biggest stories Immigration agents continued raids across SoCal Moldy food, dirty towels: Critics warned of inhumane conditions at California’s largest detention center. Jaclyn Cosgrove, Los Angeles Times, 21 June 2025 In some cities, stray dogs are poisoned with strychnine, a pesticide banned in many countries for causing inhumane suffering. Lisa Klaassen, CNN Money, 20 June 2025 The three-part documentary series, which chronicles the inhumane practices at a funeral home in Southern California, debuted on June 1. Katie Campione, Deadline, 17 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for inhumane
Recent Examples of Synonyms for inhumane
Adjective
  • As a member of a crew that robs banks, Mr. Blonde is the most ruthless.
    James Brizuela, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 July 2025
  • As they’re hunted by a ruthless drug gang led by the menacing Power (Aidan Gillen), their fight for survival becomes a journey of redemption.
    Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 2 July 2025
Adjective
  • Politics remains a cruel business and the governor has been on the frontline of it for nearly 20 years, winning and losing.
    Kevin Rennie, Hartford Courant, 5 July 2025
  • They were joined by actors playing the contestants, who lurched along wearing expressions of exaggerated horror, as though the cruel stakes of the game had just been revealed to them.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 4 July 2025
Adjective
  • While Charlie Brown played things safe, Snoopy lived an exuberant life in his imagination, casting himself as a frustrated novelist, gleeful dancer, merciless attorney and even a prolific flying ace in a World War I Sopwith Camel.
    Chris Carra, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 June 2025
  • Players have openly voiced their struggles with its deep rough, lightning-fast greens, and merciless bunkers.
    Devlina Sarkar, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 June 2025
Adjective
  • Each of the disciples have their own secrets to bear, life taking them on some brutal pathways, the piece leaning into powerful introspection.
    David John Chávez, Mercury News, 28 June 2025
  • Just over a decade had passed since the end of the brutal twelve-year-long conflict, and street protests often ended in violence.
    Graciela Mochkofsky, New Yorker, 28 June 2025
Adjective
  • This approach costs three times more than housing people and creates a vicious cycle — incarceration increases homelessness risk by destroying community connections and employment prospects.
    Mahdi E Diab, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 June 2025
  • Of course, no conversation about Yellowjackets season 3 would be complete without a deep dive into Shauna's vicious throw down with Swank's Melissa — during which Shauna rips a chunk of flesh off Melissa's arm with her teeth and forces her to eat it.
    EW.com, EW.com, 19 June 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 11 Jul. 2025.

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