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inhumanity

[in-hyoo-man-i-tee, -yoo-] / ˌɪn hyuˈmæn ɪ ti, -yu- /


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As the foundation’s president, Elizabeth Alexander, puts it: “We support artists, scholars, and thinkers,” both inside and outside prison, “who are countering the inhumanity of incarceration and the broader criminal legal system.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 4, 2026

“I think the first family that I heard about where I recognized the cruelty and the inhumanity of it all was the Gonzalez family,” he said, referring to Quintino’s parents.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 24, 2026

The leaders of more than 20 major aid agencies, including Save the Children and Oxfam, warned that "the inhumanity of the situation in Gaza is unconscionable".

From BBC • Sep. 17, 2025

And it’s an attempt by the truly malevolent to weaponize their dangerous ignorance, to make their viciousness normal—and to implicate all of us in their inhumanity.

From Salon • Feb. 25, 2025

He had no idea, nor could he have had, of the limitless inhumanity and evil of this new enemy.

From "The Boy on the Wooden Box" by Leon Leyson