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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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

She told him she had found Ofsted to be the "most inhumane" system.

From BBC • Dec. 1, 2023

“I think that is the most inhumane way to treat the most vulnerable of us.”

From Seattle Times • Oct. 10, 2023

“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

I found this one of the most inhumane restrictions of the prison system.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela