inhumanity 
in·hu·man·ity (in′hyo̵̅o̅ man′ə tē)
noun
- the quality or condition of being inhuman or inhumane
- pl. -·ties an inhuman or inhumane act or remark
Etymology: LME inhumanite < MFr < L inhumanitas
Preposition: of
- war: Trojan Women is a " blistering attack on the inhumanity of war " .
- system: He talked without any apparent bitterness, in spite of the unbelievable inhumanity of the system which operated at the time.
- society: It calls into question all of the ways in which human life is treated inhumanly, the many forms of inhumanity of modem society.
Possessives
- man: Here, horror is created from man's inhumanity to man.
Converse of object
- man: I had traveled this far and survived, so why shouldn't I see for myself the crimes of mans inhumanity to man.
- highlight: Domestic violence in the UK Chander's case highlights the inhumanity, racism and sexism of the UK Immigration and Asylum laws.
- accept: How could we have accepted such inhumanity for so long?
- show: It did not and could not show the inhumanity and psychologically damaging effects of being imprisoned, he claimed.
Adjective modifier
- such: Will there be the same disbelief that in our time, humanity could have acted with such inhumanity?
- sheer: I was deeply shocked by the sheer inhumanity, shown by the 'civilised ' world and wanted to know how this could have happened.
- man's: I mean, I'd basically like to understand man's inhumanity to man and then make a program about it.
- own: I am trying to type a text file whilst sobbing gently to myself at my own inhumanity.
The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.
It is no game for the soft of sinewand the gentle of spirit. Thehigherand dirtiercroquet-playercanusetheguile of a cobra and the inhumanity of a boa constrictor.
Man's inhumanity to Man Makes countless thousands mourn!
There were many ways of not burdening one's conscience, of shunning responsibility, looking away, keeping silent.When the unspeakable truth of the Holocaust became known at the end of the war, all too many of us claimed that they had not known anything about it, orevensuspectedanything Whoeverrefuses to remember the inhumanity is prone to new risks of infection Seeking to forget makes exile all the longer; the secret of redemption lies in remembrance.
America is deeply rooted in Negro culture: its colloquialisms, its humour, its music.How ironic that the Negro, who more than any other people can claim America's culture as his own, is being persecuted and repressed, that the Negro, who has exemplified the humanities in his very existence, is being rewarded with inhumanity.
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