subhuman

Example Sentences

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The Equal Protection Clause was ratified not to make white people colorblind, but rather to ensure that Black people were no longer treated as subhuman.

From Salon • Jul. 5, 2023

The track might be jarring, but it effectively captures the pain of being treated as subhuman.

From New York Times • Jun. 17, 2020

All around her, in the heart of Hollywood, people were living in subhuman conditions, sprawled beside storefronts and at bus stops.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 4, 2019

Acknowledging black oppression involves taking stock of how this nation enslaved a people, marked them as subhuman and closed off opportunities in obvious and not-so-obvious ways.

From Washington Post • Aug. 14, 2015

In the Two Minutes Hate he could not help sharing in the general delirium, but this subhuman chanting of “B-B! . . . B-B!” always filled him with horror.

From "1984" by George Orwell