How to Use inhumanity in a Sentence

inhumanity

noun
  • 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
  • This is pure hatred, and condemning this kind of inhumanity shouldn’t be hard.
    — Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant, 3 June 2026
  • Over the last year, the inhumanity Bruder described has been made plain.
    — Wilfred Chan, Vulture, 22 Feb. 2021
  • 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
  • His Prior is screechy and mannered to the point of inhumanity.
    — Richard Lawson, Vanities, 26 Mar. 2018
  • The inhumanity of such a statement has to be a matter of character.
    — David Pryce-Jones, National Review, 3 Mar. 2022
  • Why must women like Cabiria and Anora be made to face such inhumanity?
    — Harrison Richlin, IndieWire, 19 Oct. 2024
  • 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
  • But there are moments when the machine reveals its inhumanity.
    — Matt Thompson, The Atlantic, 28 June 2017
  • 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
  • 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
  • The media didn't talk about the inhumanity of it all, and didn't invoke fear of American life coming to a halt.
    — Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 3 Mar. 2025
  • But also by bonds of inhumanity, as two recent plays from London demonstrate.
    — New York Times, 28 Feb. 2021
  • Beneath the surface of each picture, no less clear when looking close, man’s inhumanity reveals itself.
    — Chadd Scott, Forbes, 4 May 2023
  • 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
  • In the end, Bishop said, the situation doesn’t show her son’s inhumanity.
    — John Archibald | [email protected], al, 22 Mar. 2023
  • 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
  • But the level of violence, the level of inhumanity, the level of atrocity in Iran, is what moves me.
    — Lily Moayeri, Rolling Stone, 3 Mar. 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • For some, that raised the specter of a dystopian future where computers streamed music made by computers, a perfect circle of inhumanity.
    — Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 28 June 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
  • 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
  • Now, Haitians seek refuge and a new beginning in America, only to be met with violence and inhumanity.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 24 Sep. 2021
  • But the inhumanity this historic trail commemorates stands in stark contrast with the enduring human spirit.
    — Keith Sharon, USA Today, 19 Apr. 2026
  • Newspapers can barely bestir themselves to report on the latest inhumanity in Ukraine — the latest bombing of a school, say.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 25 Nov. 2024
  • 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
  • Their willingness to film their inhumanity echoed the Nazis of the Third Reich, who likewise filmed their mass atrocities.
    — Bobby Zirkin, Baltimore Sun, 14 May 2026
  • 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

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