inhumanity
IPA: ɪnhjumˈænʌti
noun
- The lack of compassion.
- An inhuman act.
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Examples of "inhumanity" in Sentences
- When this kind of inhumanity is OK’d and, frankly, supported?
- What we call inhumanity is we fear not _inhuman_, but _human nature unrestrained_.
- His contrition for chemical inhumanity is shaded in the gloom of cosmic insecurity.
- The inhumanity is clear from the hideous lips and mouth and eyes as cold and expressionless as those of a dead fish.
- "You cannot be so inhuman as to propose such terms!" said I. "The inhumanity is on your side," answered Mr. Brereton.
- Those that are cruel: Thou wilt abhor the bloody man; for inhumanity is no less contrary, no less hateful, to the God of mercy, whom mercy pleases.
- Africa, and the people in the market-place a lively and chromatic jangle; but the shadow of what we call inhumanity (when we are trying to persuade ourselves that humanity is something very different) chills and darkens the heart.
- Moreover, this would silence once and for all those gabblers who had undertaken to criticise him for what they called his inhumanity in banishing this only son when he was only trying to bring up that child in the way he should go.
- We have been accustomed to regard the rebel inhumanity to prisoners as one of the darkest clouds in the whole horizon; but look round you: see how that inhumanity is opening the eyes of men at home and abroad to the true character of this rebellion.
- Such a prevalency of irreligion and inhumanity is bad in any, but very bad in a judge, who has power in his hand, in the use of which he ought to be guided by the principles of religion and justice, and, if he be not, instead of doing good with his power he will be in danger of doing hurt.
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