as in cruelty
disposition to willfully inflict pain and suffering on others
man's inhumanity to man has been a recurring theme in human history
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Presenting inhumanity in a contemporary style that draws us in, Shahn employed color and line to summon the viewer’s full attention.
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airmail.news, 6 Jan. 2024
This distinction is what keeps Rawls’s view from lapsing into inhumanity.
—Becca Rothfeld, Harper's Magazine, 2 Mar. 2024
Nonetheless, the authorities have responded by instigating fear and treating citizens with inhumanity.
—Maryia Sadouskaya-Komlach, Foreign Affairs, 18 Aug. 2020
Throughout his diary, excerpts of which we are honored to share today with our readers, Navalny writes with a fierce moral clarity about the inhumanity of Vladimir Putin’s regime, and about the power of its opposite force—the humanity of his fellow-countrymen.
—David Remnick, The New Yorker, 11 Oct. 2024
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airmail.news, 6 Jan. 2024
This distinction is what keeps Rawls’s view from lapsing into inhumanity.
—Becca Rothfeld, Harper's Magazine, 2 Mar. 2024
Nonetheless, the authorities have responded by instigating fear and treating citizens with inhumanity.
—Maryia Sadouskaya-Komlach, Foreign Affairs, 18 Aug. 2020
Throughout his diary, excerpts of which we are honored to share today with our readers, Navalny writes with a fierce moral clarity about the inhumanity of Vladimir Putin’s regime, and about the power of its opposite force—the humanity of his fellow-countrymen.
—David Remnick, The New Yorker, 11 Oct. 2024
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“Inhumanity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/inhumanity. Accessed 16 Apr. 2025.
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