inhuman
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6.0
- adjective
- /ɪnˈhjuːmən/
:
inhumano
- The conditions in the prison were inhuman, causing inmates to suffer greatly.
- inhuman or degrading treatment
- inhuman behavior
- inhuman conditions
To what extent is cruel and inhuman degrading treatment always that?
- To what extent is cruel and inhuman degrading treatment always that?
- It's, it's got a vicious, inhuman, cruel quality about it.
- Now in that way, you're not being inhuman.
- Police brutality and our whole criminal justice system is just so inhuman.
- You, if you treat the other side like an inhuman monster, it's hard to take notes, you know.
- And I, I've never encountered anything that dark and ugly and just inhuman before.
- Only now, three years into his tenure, is he reverting to some of the Trump era policies that he decried as inhuman.
- So Malthus is often portrayed as this cruel, inhuman Scrooge or a lackey of the bourgeoisie as Marx called him.
Examples
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Furthermore, you have no respect for those who arrive in inhuman conditions and suffer in vain.
Academic text (2012) -
This treatment is inhuman, and somebody needs to be held accountable.
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To test on someone like that, it's inhuman.
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How can he be so inhuman?
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It's, it's got a vicious, inhuman, cruel quality about it.
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They're working inhuman hours under terrible conditions to save our lives.
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By giving your support to this show and to their advertisers, you are the root of the problem of this sick and inhuman practice.
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So it doesn't come as a surprise to anyone, obviously, but this to me is the absolute most terrible, inhuman argument to make.
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I must tell you about the ex-professor of aesthetics' cruel and inhuman behavior with his wife.
Academic text (2006) -
He kept it faithfully while suffering the daily horrors of that inhuman place.
Synonyms
522
2.7
Willing to cause pain or suffering to others
229
4.8
Very cruel and violent, causing pain or suffering
152
4.9
Not feeling sorry for others and hurting them on purpose
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6.1
Showing no pity and acting cruel on purpose
37
5.9
Very cruel and causing pain to people or animals
27
7.3
Very cruel and shocking, causing strong fear
1
8.5
Not having feelings or kindness that people usually have
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9.9
Having no feeling in body or mind and no pity
Compounds
How Cruel
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Inhuman is made from in- meaning 'not' and human meaning 'a person'. So it literally means 'not human' and is used for behaviour that shows no pity or care, which is why we call very cruel acts 'inhuman'.