How to Use inhumane in a Sentence

inhumane

adjective
Definition of inhumanenext
Synonyms for inhumanenext
  • The movie, to its credit, is not inhumane about what happens to the bear.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 23 Feb. 2023
  • That's the biggest issue is no one wants to be inhumane about this.
    — CBS News, 14 May 2023
  • He's been captured and treated in the most inhumane way and has seen the worst of humanity.
    — Christian Holub, EW.com, 31 Aug. 2022
  • Many argue that this process, which involves force-feeding the birds, is inhumane.
    — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 10 Feb. 2023
  • Critics have called the buoy system barbaric and inhumane and linked it to the drowning deaths of two migrants last week.
    — Todd J. Gillman, Dallas News, 10 Aug. 2023
  • People in prisons, in detention, are forced to work in inhumane conditions for no pay for the profit of the state.
    — Yoonjung Seo, CNN, 23 Mar. 2023
  • Dan Rodricks’ column resonates with the need for hope and prayer in light of the inhumane words and actions of the previous president.
    — Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 3 Jan. 2024
  • If his standards were inhumane, then why was Ms. Robb still drawn to the beauty of his choreography?
    — Alex Vadukul, New York Times, 24 Feb. 2023
  • Many Americans came away from the book convinced that end-of-life care in hospitals was inhumane.
    — Ava Kofman, ProPublica, 28 Nov. 2022
  • The 'callous and inhumane' school shooting hoaxes are still happening around the US.
    — Melissa Alonso, CNN, 14 May 2023
  • Israelis are also allowed to make the most inhumane comments.
    — Doris Bittar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 June 2022
  • One such idea, according to The New York Times, would be to shelter migrants and the homeless on cruise ships — a move that advocacy groups have called inhumane.
    — Devika Rao, The Week, 20 Sep. 2022
  • Her father succumbed to the inhumane camp conditions a few months later . . .
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 13 Sep. 2023
  • Foie gras is produced by force-feeding a goose or duck to fatten their liver, a practice that these activists called inhumane.
    — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 20 Sep. 2022
  • Aid groups have called the camps inhumane, since Border Patrol doesn’t provide food or shelter but detains migrants who try to leave.
    — Emily Alvarenga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Dec. 2023
  • European courts agreed, ruling that he never should have been sent to the United States because of the risk of inhumane treatment and because he was being tried twice for the same crimes.
    — Rachel Weiner, Washington Post, 17 July 2023
  • The Biden administration and a host of Democrats have denounced these measures as inhumane.
    — Todd J. Gillman, Dallas News, 27 July 2023
  • The men have been camping out in front of the Watson Hotel in protest, citing inhumane conditions at the Red Hook facility.
    — Theara Coleman, The Week, 31 Jan. 2023
  • These inhumane conditions are only one aspect to the nightmare this city puts our brothers through.
    — Petula Dvorak, Washington Post, 19 Sep. 2022
  • Sama will have to defend themselves in court over claims of inhumane working conditions after a law suit was filed against them in the Kenyan capital on May 10.
    — Faustine Ngila, Quartz, 11 May 2022
  • Critics have said the barriers are inhumane and pose a danger to public safety.
    — Ken Tran, USA TODAY, 23 July 2023
  • Unlike some prior conflicts in other parts of the world, the inhumane actions of the Russian military in Ukraine have been very well publicized.
    — Arash Javanbakht, The Conversation, 28 Apr. 2022
  • The daily absenteeism of more than a third of the correction officers has led to inhumane conditions for detainees and staff alike.
    — New York Times, 19 Apr. 2022
  • The Biden administration tried to end that program, calling it inhumane, but a court ordered that it be restored.
    — New York Times, 26 May 2022
  • Leaf’s achievement is to capture the inhumane pressure that leads people to act self-destructively.
    — Will Bedingfield, WIRED, 21 Dec. 2023
  • Where Squid Game aimed to show us the human souls ground up by this inhumane hierarchy of haves and have-nots, The Challenge seems only to want to reaffirm that, yep, people can be real assholes.
    — Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Nov. 2023
  • It’s typically made from the feathers of ducks that are raised for food, and has been associated with inhumane practices.
    — Neeti Mehra, Treehugger, 25 Jan. 2023
  • The Chinese Communist Party is again burying history to make a profit and hide its inhumane deeds.
    — Chen Guangcheng, WSJ, 13 July 2022
  • The request revives a 1975 class-action suit that led to orders that the county end dangerous and inhumane practices that violate inmates’ rights.
    — Michael Finnegan, Los Angeles Times, 8 Sep. 2022
  • State officials vowed there would be changes made after touring the prison and seeing firsthand the inhumane conditions that allegedly sparked the riots.
    — Lici Beveridge, USA TODAY, 21 Apr. 2022

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