subhuman

Example Sentences

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“Failed leadership overseeing the City’s Corrections division has left the City with a huge mess to clean up,” Jones said, citing failing jail locks, lackluster maintenance and subhuman conditions for detainees.

From Seattle Times

Dr. Joanne Freeman, Professor of History and American Studies at Yale University, wrote that, if anything, the compromise reaffirmed that enslaved people were seen as subhuman.

From Salon

Hansell noted “a universal feeling” among U.S. forces that the Japanese were “subhuman.”

From Washington Post

Art was born around 25,000 years ago, when the subhuman Neanderthal evolved into our human ancestor, Cro-Magnon man.

From Literature

Microaggressions often convey to targets the message that they are foreigners, criminals, dangerous, a threat or subhuman.

From Scientific American