inhuman
Example Sentences
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The power of his work resides not in ideological argument or moral screed but in the observation of characters struggling to maintain their humanity in an inhuman system.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 17, 2026
President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said recently that "men are becoming increasingly inhuman and violent."
From Barron's • Apr. 9, 2026
Philosophy without a biography turns inhuman; biography without a philosophy becomes inert.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 6, 2026
She remembers Caroline's reaction: "I heard my daughter scream. It was almost inhuman, that scream."
From BBC • Feb. 14, 2026
It had hit her then: For the drüskelle, Zoya was a little like Jarl Brum—cruel, inhuman, the thing that waited in the dark with death in her hands.
From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo
Vocabulary lists containing inhuman
Sounder
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