most inhumane

ADJECTIVE

animal, savage

Synonyms

WEAK

barbaric barbarous bestial brutal cannibalistic cold-blooded cruel devilish diabolical fell ferocious fiendish fierce grim hateful heartless implacable malicious malign malignant mean merciless pitiless relentless remorseless ruthless truculent uncompassionate unfeeling unkind unrelenting unsympathetic vicious

Antonyms

WEAK

animate human/humane sensate

Example Sentences

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"We are keeping human bodies alive in the most inhumane manner," one said.

From BBC • May 13, 2025

Federal courts imposed population caps, consent decrees, and other interventions that significantly mitigated the cruelest and most inhumane aspects of our prison system.

From Slate • Jun. 20, 2024

But it is the bulldozing of people’s homes during a rainy season that he calls the most inhumane.

From Seattle Times • May 11, 2024

“They wanted to support people who have escaped trauma, climate crisis, gang violence and the most inhumane things possible to arrive here,” she said.

From Washington Post • Dec. 24, 2022

The structure they created formed the basis of one of the harshest, most inhumane societies the world has ever known.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela