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Recent Examples of inhumanity The immorality and inhumanity of these acts have cascaded through families, friends, and communities. Nick Gauthier, Hartford Courant, 7 July 2025 Aside from the negative impact to the Everglades of housing thousands of people there, and trucking supplies in and out, there’s the inhumanity of it. Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 5 July 2025 The show’s creator, Hwang Dong-hyuk, has spoken movingly of his mixed feelings about the way his brutal satire of late-stage capitalism’s rapacious inhumanity has resonated so deeply with viewers around the world. Patrick Brzeski, HollywoodReporter, 30 June 2025 DuVernay presents the inhumanity of the situation without lecturing the audience or patronizing the subjects, instead providing an honest portrait of the fear, hope, and lost time that the Central Park Five experienced as the result of a profoundly broken justice system. Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 26 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for inhumanity
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Noun
  • Such rhetoric has fostered a climate where cruelty is normalized.
    Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 2 Sep. 2025
  • His anguished mother insisted on an open-casket ceremony to show the world the gruesome cruelty of lynching.
    Lorenzino Estrada, AZCentral.com, 29 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • The brutality of the Ukrainian frontline The challenges facing foreign volunteer fighters on the battlefield extend well beyond their legal label.
    Rebecca Johns, Miami Herald, 6 Sep. 2025
  • For a long time, the book was consider unadaptable due to its brutality.
    Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 5 Sep. 2025

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“Inhumanity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inhumanity. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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