as in cruelty
disposition to willfully inflict pain and suffering on others
the unspeakable inhumanness of the pseudoscientific experiments performed on inmates of the concentration camps
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Noun
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Just weeks ago, a jury found Colt's father, Colin, guilty of second-degree murder, involuntary manslaughter, and cruelty to children.—
CBS News Atlanta Digital Staff,
CBS News,
16 Mar. 2026 -
For Barbara, impending death does not inspire a moral awakening, and Rosenberg never gives the reader an origin story that would excuse her cruelty.—
Isle McElroy,
The Atlantic,
16 Mar. 2026
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The killing in the woods of Knoxville demonstrated a brutality and callousness rarely seen in a woman, let alone one so young.—
Amanda Lee Myers,
USA Today,
21 Mar. 2026
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But the increasing brutality of the regime was like nothing these people had ever experienced.—
Cora Engelbrecht,
New Yorker,
20 Mar. 2026
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“Inhumanness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inhumanness. Accessed 23 Mar. 2026.
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