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US
/ˌɪnhjuˈmænəti/
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[ UK /ɪnhjuːmˈænɪti/ ]
[ UK /ɪnhjuːmˈænɪti/ ]
NOUN
- an act of atrocious cruelty
- the quality of lacking compassion or consideration for others
How To Use inhumanity In A Sentence
- As other camps fell into Allied hands the full story of Nazi inhumanity began to be told.
- The inhumanity of the cyberworld and the robot seem to be insinuating their way into what we thought of as our ‘deepest’ humanity.
- It is sad, really, another example of the right's impersonalized inhumanity. Discourse.net: A Problem for 'Plain-Meaning' Advocates
- Despite any such fears however, acts of inhumanity towards a surrendered enemy have no place in the third Millenium.
- He says he lost all interest in photographing soldiers in action, and became determined to show the world the results of man's inhumanity to man.
- Some historians claim this is the most graphic example of man's inhumanity to man.
- The fifth anniversary of Sept. 11 is both a reminder of the inhumanity of the extremists we are up against and the humanity shared by most citizens of the world.
- Having been dehumanized in turn, they will embrace inhumanity and brutality.
- Many have laboured, lost their footing and fallen in a bid to dramatise Sebastian Faulks's Birdsong, a herculean tale of thwarted love, haunted hearts and man's capacity for bonhomie and inhumanity during the first world war. Grace Dent: Birdsong
- Without arguing this matter of my general reputation, accepting it at its current face value, let me add that I have indeed lived life in a very rough school and have seen more than the average man's share of inhumanity and cruelty, from the forecastle and the prison, the slum and the desert, the execution-chamber and the lazar-house, to the battlefield and the military hospital. FOREWORD