inhumanely

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for inhumanely
Adverb
  • Make decision-making ruthlessly efficient.
    Erik Huberman, Rolling Stone, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Few filmmakers have mined their own life as ruthlessly, or as artfully, as Noah Baumbach.
    Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 3 Oct. 2025
Adverb
  • In the process, Joel heartlessly killed some innocent people, including medical professionals.
    EW.com, EW.com, 26 Aug. 2025
  • There is a troubling suggestion of abuse, implying that Jack might have been ill-treated by his mom (and saved by Helen), rather than heartlessly abandoned.
    Tomris Laffly, Variety, 14 Aug. 2025
Adverb
  • Be Ruthless In Your Shoe Edit Shoes are notoriously bulky, but Jones recommends editing mercilessly.
    Alesandra Dubin, Southern Living, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Comedians mercilessly mocked their audiences, and audiences liked to punch back.
    Adrienne LaFrance, The Atlantic, 15 Sep. 2025
Adverb
  • The director plays up the humor a lot more than Westlake’s callously cynical prose, for better or worse.
    David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 30 Sep. 2025
  • But after the Sriracha-maker callously withheld payments from Underwood, the relationship deteriorated and litigation followed.
    Kate Vitasek, Forbes.com, 14 Aug. 2025
Adverb
  • In this volatile environment, comments that appear to minimize or frame the shooting insensitively—like Matt Gutman's—can quickly become career-ending.
    Martha McHardy, MSNBC Newsweek, 17 Sep. 2025
  • Sahroni has faced accusations of responding insensitively to people calling for parliament to be dissolved amid anger over lawmakers’ allowances.
    CNN Money, CNN Money, 31 Aug. 2025
Adverb
  • Scott’s death has been compared to that of Matthew Shepard, the young gay American brutally beaten and left to die in Wyoming, in 1998, who became an emblem for a reckoning with anti-gay violence.
    Eren Orbey, New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Then came the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, only two years after her native Belarus, still a Kremlin satellite, brutally crushed its democracy movement.
    New York Times, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2025
Adverb
  • The episode unsparingly examines cultural assumptions about race and colorism; similarly, HIM is a scathing critique of how professional sports capitalize upon the bodies and minds of Black athletes.
    Neda Ulaby, NPR, 19 Sep. 2025
Adverb
  • The Justices have also harshly criticized lower-court judges who have blocked the Administration’s actions, including Young, who went so far as to apologize from the bench.
    Emma Green, New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Despite those concessions, the law has been harshly criticized by Neighbors for a Better California, a group that advocates for preservation of single-family neighborhoods.
    David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Oct. 2025
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“Inhumanely.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inhumanely. Accessed 17 Oct. 2025.

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