inhuman
Collocations
5(adj.)
VERBS
be
consider sth, regard sth as
Many people consider the working conditions in that factory to be inhuman.
ADV
positively
The working conditions in that factory are positively inhuman and need to change immediately.
totally, utterly | almost
Definitions
adj
Of or pertaining to inhumanity and the indifferently cruel, sadistic or barbaric behavior it brings.
It was replaced by a New Euston, "bold in design and layout and in keeping with a new railway era". Betjeman was unmoved, describing it tersely as "no masterpiece" and noting that its lack of platform seating made it an "inhuman structure" which seemed to ignore passengers.
Transcending or different than what is human.
When he was out among men, seeking his own ends, and “making good! his colliery workings, he had an almost uncanny shrewdness, hardness, and a straight sharp punch. It was as if his very passivity and prostitution to the Magna Mater gave him insight into material business affairs, and lent him a certain remarkable inhuman force.
The organism that embraces this theme in its devious ramifications is the great business house of Dombey and Son, symptom and epitome of selfish money power and warping tyranny. And the special symbol that spells wreckage, devastation, and the unleashed violence of the inhuman force that thus came to possess mankind is that new monster of the mid-nineteenth-century world, heartless embodiment of mechanized energy, the railroad —the same railroad so often pictured in the Punch of those days or in the maledictions of Ruskin as a glaring, headlit engine of destruction, gouging open the green English landscape or the outposts of London, riding down the lives of men, and bringing the smoke and soot of industrialism in its wake: the dragon of a world grown heartless and of a future that promised to become more heartless still.
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Synonyms
adjective — without compunction or human feeling
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6It was replaced by a New Euston, "bold in design and layout and in keeping with a new railway era". Betjeman was unmoved, describing it tersely as "no masterpiece" and noting that its lack of platform
WiktionaryWhen he was out among men, seeking his own ends, and “making good! his colliery workings, he had an almost uncanny shrewdness, hardness, and a straight sharp punch. It was as if his very passivity and
WiktionaryThe organism that embraces this theme in its devious ramifications is the great business house of Dombey and Son, symptom and epitome of selfish money power and warping tyranny. And the special symbol
WiktionaryNo one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.
Tatoeba · #554648Their faces looked inhuman, covered with scarlet and black paint.
Tatoeba · #3581880The Palestinians of Gaza are living under an inhuman blockade imposed by Israel.
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