How to Use inhumanity in a Sentence

inhumanity

noun
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  • No school system in the nation dared teach the full depth of our history, the full pain of it, the full inhumanity of it.
    — Roy S. Johnson | [email protected], al, 3 Nov. 2020
  • There are cultures that don’t read books where there is not that kind of inhumanity.
    — Amy Sutherland, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Mar. 2023
  • But the inhumanity does not feel—at least to me, at least not yet—transcendent.
    — Stephen Marche, The Atlantic, 27 Sep. 2022
  • Students picked from themes to explore: the loss of innocence, the impact of war, the inhumanity of war, the burden of guilt.
    — Adam Patric Miller, Hartford Courant, 23 Jan. 2024
  • His Prior is screechy and mannered to the point of inhumanity.
    — Richard Lawson, Vanities, 26 Mar. 2018
  • The inhumanity unfolding at the border has not just been a test for Trump.
    — Molly Ball, Time, 21 June 2018
  • Over the last year, the inhumanity Bruder described has been made plain.
    — Wilfred Chan, Vulture, 22 Feb. 2021
  • In the course of her career, Ms. Johnson has found herself in dangerous and somber places, as a witness to some of the worst inhumanity of the recent past.
    — A. O. Scott, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2016
  • The inhumanity of such a statement has to be a matter of character.
    — David Pryce-Jones, National Review, 3 Mar. 2022
  • To make matters worse, many of the comments under her posts are a cesspool of ignorance and inhumanity.
    — Kirsten West Savali, The Root, 28 Oct. 2017
  • What happened to African American victims of the flood was appalling, and just the inhumanity of how they were treated.
    — Rachel Becker, The Verge, 26 May 2018
  • The president is not used to being accused of inhumanity, but that has been the tenor of a weekslong barrage in the media here.
    — Adam Nossiter, New York Times, 16 Jan. 2018
  • For the worst thing that can happen to us is not to endure this world’s natural catastrophes or even man’s inhumanity to man.
    — Nr Interview, National Review, 12 Jan. 2018
  • During an episode of the show last January, Goldberg said the Holocaust was not about race, but rather about man's inhumanity to others.
    — Edward Segarra, USA TODAY, 15 Mar. 2023
  • The bill clearly stated that the purpose was to recognize the part slaves played in settling this steamy, wild land and to acknowledge the inhumanity of their state while doing so.
    — Lauren Ritchie, OrlandoSentinel.com, 19 May 2017
  • And everything that happened to Ms. Pulido from that day forward is tied to that act of inhumanity.
    — Susan Kelleher, The Seattle Times, 17 May 2017
  • Worse still, the toxic, ignorant inhumanity in the debates says a lot about us as a society.
    — Lori Nickel, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 22 Nov. 2021
  • In the end, Bishop said, the situation doesn’t show her son’s inhumanity.
    — John Archibald | [email protected], al, 22 Mar. 2023
  • Somehow, Friedrich Kellner was able to see the cruelty and inhumanity of the Nazis and the blindness of his fellow German citizens.
    — David Hendricks, San Antonio Express-News, 8 Mar. 2018
  • Worse: What if your heroes and friends — or people who seem like them — are themselves capable of inhumanity?
    — Maureen O’Connor, The Cut, 18 Mar. 2018
  • The inhumanity of lynching is hard enough to fathom, but the culture of impunity that allowed the killings to continue for so long is perhaps even more mind-boggling.
    — Vanessa Gregory, New York Times, 25 Apr. 2018
  • If Congress doesn’t act to grant them permanent status, the world will witness more inhumanity playing out on U.S. soil.
    — Fabiola Santiago, miamiherald, 12 July 2018
  • Man’s inhumanity to donkeys can beat those numbers any day.
    — Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 9 Dec. 2022
  • On Monday night, Goldberg issued a full apology, saying the Holocaust was about both race and man's inhumanity to man.
    — Peter Weber, The Week, 1 Feb. 2022
  • Biden reacted to the growing catalog of inhumanity on Monday by calling for more sanctions and for a war crimes trial to take place against Putin.
    — Stephen Collinson, CNN, 5 Apr. 2022
  • Of course, Bass — a journalist, Princeton professor, and scholar of genocide and war crimes — is not the first to call out the peculiar inhumanity with which Japan conducted the war.
    — Michael Washburn, National Review, 31 Dec. 2023
  • Children of Men is about trauma coming home, and about a world in which the apparent end of the human race is not the cause of our manifest inhumanity to each other, but just punishment for it.
    — Sarah Marshall, New Republic, 23 June 2017
  • Its no-frills, form-follows-function shape evoked civility in a time of chaos, a ticking intelligence in the face of a new inhumanity.
    — Gary Shteyngart, The New Yorker, 20 Mar. 2017
  • Beyond the inhumanity of toying with people's lives this way, there's also the shortsightedness of it.
    — Author: Bret Stephens, Alaska Dispatch News, 18 June 2017
  • Nothing better illustrates the humanity of Israel and the inhumanity of Hamas.
    — Evan Nierman, Baltimore Sun, 16 Apr. 2024

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