dehumanize
IPA: dɪhjˈumʌnaɪz
verb
- To take away humanity; to remove or deny human qualities, characteristics, or attributes; to impersonalize.
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Examples of "dehumanize" in Sentences
- Ilaiah is not dehumanized here at all.
- It was so fake, so completely dehumanized.
- It's a loadedterm used to dehumanize people.
- It does not mean a dehumanized point of view.
- Harper's: Do math and science "dehumanize" students?
- There is a continued attempt to delegitimze and dehumanize.
- It distances the dignity and dehumanizes the people in question.
- And “retard” is a pejorative term used to dehumanize the mentally retarded.
- "You kind of dehumanize the adult, bringing him down to the animal's level."
- (Not helped by conditioning to dehumanize the subject population by superiors.)
- "Should we no longer use the terms rapist, thief, murderer or molester because they might" dehumanize "the offender?
- Enforced shaving of a prisoner's head has long been a systematic tool to 'dehumanize' and 'depersonalize' an individual.
- I could see using them if I was writing from the POV of a character who was trying to dehumanize or objectify the character they were referring to.
- Does the writer really mean to suggest — nay, insist — that universities, regardless of their affiliation, "dehumanize" their employees by expecting a "certain" level of conduct?
- Access to the cash that power brings, completely deranged and satisfying “investigations” that both dehumanize the opposition and give that warm fuzzy feeling of standing up for “principle” (no one is above the law — even, or especially those who have done nothing in its violation) and, best of all, they get to go on demolishing any hope of using government power to solve any actual problem out there.
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