[ UK /ɪnhjˈuːmən/ ]
[ US /ˌɪnˈhjumən/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. without compunction or human feeling
    in cold blood
    insensate destruction
    cold-blooded killing
  2. belonging to or resembling something nonhuman
    something dark and inhuman in form
    a babel of inhuman noises
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How To Use inhuman In A Sentence

  • Inhuman hours, back-stabbing competition, abuse by superiors; it's all familiar now.
  • Hog waste is a major pollution source, communities surrounding the factories are strangled by a foetid stench and animal rights groups have long complained about the inhumane way pigs are raised and slaughtered.
  • His domestic policy is unjust, inhumane, fiscally irresponsible, and amazingly uninformed.
  • I don't often use words like ‘wickedness’ to describe acts of inhumanity.
  • I NOTICE that apart from the widespread complaint that the German pilotless planes ‘seem so unnatural’ (a bomb dropped by a live airman is quite natural, apparently), some journalists are denouncing them as barbarous, inhumane, and ‘an indiscriminate attack on civilians’. As I Please
  • The trade in exotic birds is barbarous and inhumane.
  • Long before we reach this stage, the quality of life for us would be unacceptable, cruel and inhumane. Times, Sunday Times
  • It was a bestial reminder of man's inhumanity to man.
  • something dark and inhuman in form
  • You want to look at any philosophy that millions of people subscribe to, and some bad things are going to happen - but to my knowledge "godlessness" has really only been around for about 100 years, and in that amount of time its probably led to more murder, misery and mans 'inhumanity to man than all the other "isms" ever created. Sound Politics: Obsession Shown At Cedar Park
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