Modifies a noun

• monster: Frankly, the woman that ran the resort that we got access to the Dead Sea via, was an inhuman monster.

• punishment: The European Union considers the death penalty as a cruel and inhuman punishment and a violation to the right to life.

• treatment: What really shocked people was George's inhuman treatment of his wife.

• creature: It still shows the unnamed assassin to be an unstoppable, inhuman creature of no compassion or compunction.

• act: We all deplore the inhuman acts in Yugoslavia that preceded NATO action.

• condition: More than 250 million children have to work in the most inhuman conditions for bare survival.

Modifying Another Word

• almost: Thus Hetty is closer to a Medea than to a repentant Magdalen and her crime makes her almost inhuman.

• so: To think that man can be so inhuman is beyond my understanding.

• very: Very inhuman, you may think, to want to go killing one's own descendants!

• often: We are carrying out an often inhuman battle where the best could succumb.

• totally: For the big yellow mass of quivering bleary cross eyed blubber bulged from the crab pot in a manner totally inhuman.

• increasingly: An increasingly inhuman load is being dumped on the shoulders of the workers.

Used with adjective complement

• become: Of course, it does not mean that we become inhuman.