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Definition of inhumanity in English: inhumanitynounPlural inhumanities ɪnhjʊˈmanɪtiˌɪn(h)juˈmænədi mass nounExtremely cruel and brutal behaviour. 不人道,残暴 人对人的残暴。 count noun an elaborate review of man's inhumanities 一篇详尽评论人类残暴行为的文章。 Example sentencesExamples - If I'm witnessing torture and inhumanity on a grand scale, the answer is no.
- The world pitied Nazi refugees and accused the Czechs of inhumanity.
- The engrossing series is a searing reminder of man's capacity for unimaginable acts of inhumanity against fellow man.
- I don't often use words like ‘wickedness’ to describe acts of inhumanity.
- To turn a country into a laboratory is to give ample warning of inhumanity.
- As other camps fell into Allied hands the full story of Nazi inhumanity began to be told.
- Instead, she has chosen a dangerous, heartbreaking life, which sees risk and suffering and gross inhumanity every single day.
- It begins in Britain today with the purpose of reminding the world about the cost of man's inhumanity to man.
- The positive is that there's less disorder and inhumanity which would have gone on in Bosnia or Kosovo.
- He will be remembered by family and friends as a truly courageous individual who used his talents as a cameraman to fight inhumanity.
- Despite any such fears however, acts of inhumanity towards a surrendered enemy have no place in the third Millenium.
- He says he lost all interest in photographing soldiers in action, and became determined to show the world the results of man's inhumanity to man.
- I am a part of the collective sorrow felt around the world about man's inhumanity to man.
- Others will witness acts of inhumanity that will haunt their remaining days.
- This is the kind of unspeakable inhumanity we are all up against.
- Which is an act of war and defense and which is an act of depraved inhumanity?
- He has spent his life analysing and opposing injustice and inhumanity.
- Some historians claim this is the most graphic example of man's inhumanity to man.
- There are no precedents for what is the most public act of inhumanity in the world's history, so schools have largely been left to get by on a wing and a lot of prayers.
- It takes acts of monumental inhumanity before such rather basic people would take a risk.
Synonyms cruelty, harshness, brutality, callousness, sadism, severity, savagery, viciousness, barbarity, barbarism bestiality, monstrousness, fiendishness, evil, evilness, wickedness, heinousness mercilessness, ruthlessness, pitilessness, remorselessness, cold-bloodedness, heartlessness, hard-heartedness, stone-heartedness, unforgivingness unkindness, unkindliness, inconsiderateness, uncaringness, lack of compassion, lack of feeling, lack of sympathy British informal, dated beastliness archaic dastardliness rare egregiousness, flagitiousness
OriginLate 15th century: from Old French inhumanite or Latin inhumanitas, from inhumanus 'inhuman'. Definition of inhumanity in US English: inhumanitynounˌin(h)yo͞oˈmanədēˌɪn(h)juˈmænədi Extremely cruel and brutal behavior. 不人道,残暴 a justification for further cruelty and inhumanity Example sentencesExamples - Instead, she has chosen a dangerous, heartbreaking life, which sees risk and suffering and gross inhumanity every single day.
- Some historians claim this is the most graphic example of man's inhumanity to man.
- I don't often use words like ‘wickedness’ to describe acts of inhumanity.
- This is the kind of unspeakable inhumanity we are all up against.
- It takes acts of monumental inhumanity before such rather basic people would take a risk.
- The world pitied Nazi refugees and accused the Czechs of inhumanity.
- He says he lost all interest in photographing soldiers in action, and became determined to show the world the results of man's inhumanity to man.
- As other camps fell into Allied hands the full story of Nazi inhumanity began to be told.
- There are no precedents for what is the most public act of inhumanity in the world's history, so schools have largely been left to get by on a wing and a lot of prayers.
- The engrossing series is a searing reminder of man's capacity for unimaginable acts of inhumanity against fellow man.
- Despite any such fears however, acts of inhumanity towards a surrendered enemy have no place in the third Millenium.
- Others will witness acts of inhumanity that will haunt their remaining days.
- I am a part of the collective sorrow felt around the world about man's inhumanity to man.
- He has spent his life analysing and opposing injustice and inhumanity.
- Which is an act of war and defense and which is an act of depraved inhumanity?
- It begins in Britain today with the purpose of reminding the world about the cost of man's inhumanity to man.
- The positive is that there's less disorder and inhumanity which would have gone on in Bosnia or Kosovo.
- If I'm witnessing torture and inhumanity on a grand scale, the answer is no.
- He will be remembered by family and friends as a truly courageous individual who used his talents as a cameraman to fight inhumanity.
- To turn a country into a laboratory is to give ample warning of inhumanity.
Synonyms cruelty, harshness, brutality, callousness, sadism, severity, savagery, viciousness, barbarity, barbarism
OriginLate 15th century: from Old French inhumanite or Latin inhumanitas, from inhumanus ‘inhuman’. |