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Example sentences for "inhumanity"

Lexicographically close words:
inhospitable; inhospitality; inhuman; inhumane; inhumanities; inhumanly; inhumation; inhumed; inimical; inimically
  1. The ferocity and inhumanity of the Cæsar Gallus.

  2. It was conducted with a fierceness and inhumanity that even the present war has not equalled.

  3. But because England would not wait her turn, she is overwhelmed with accusations of treachery and inhumanity by a sincerely indignant Germany.

  4. Cruelty and inhumanity in civil cases were as great as under the Inquisition.

  5. Therefore a little thing in the way of inhumanity is strange and exerts its full repulsive effect.

  6. To the Gauchos of Uruguay "inhumanity and love of bloodshed become second nature.

  7. None of these people felt that repulsive revolt of the whole nature at inhumanity which characterizes modern cultivated people.

  8. The Romans showed the pitilessness and inhumanity of their mores in the development they gave to the gladiatorial exhibitions.

  9. The aborigines, both civilized and savage, looked with horror upon the Chinese for their inhumanity in this respect.

  10. The folly of the instructions was only surpassed by the inhumanity of the threat, and this folly and inhumanity were justly exposed by Smith's letter in reply.

  11. Great Britain is now forcing British soldiers to wage war with an inhumanity and barbarism that is astonishing the civilised world.

  12. Man's inhumanity to man" is nothing compared to woman's inhumanity to woman.

  13. I saw with childish sorrow, impotent wrath, and awful wonder at man’s inhumanity to man, the harsh and sweeping Roro and Morenish clearances, and heard much talk about others which were said to be as bad if not worse.

  14. The proceedings were universally condemned by every right-thinking person who knew the district, as quite uncalled for, most unjustifiable and improper, as well as for “the reckless cruelty and inhumanity with which they were carried through.

  15. The inhumanity of compulsory systems of command where men can argue that criminal orders must be obeyed, is calculated to warn us against the inhuman potentialities of the modern organisation of State and society.

  16. The violence and inhumanity which Nazi leaders have publicly avowed toward all Jews are apparently now coming to a climax in a virtual massacre.

  17. The inhumanity with which the shipwrecked were lately treated upon the French coast impelled me to place in contrast the conduct of an English woman and her parents under like circumstances, as it occurred some years ago.

  18. Refinement, for the most part false, increases the desire to accumulate wealth; and, while theories of political economy are boastfully pleading for the practice, inhumanity pervades all our dealings in buying and selling.

  19. In the autumn of that year the British burnt his house and carried his aged father to New York where their proverbial inhumanity soon produced his death.

  20. Fortune has been lost, reputation destroyed, and every charity of life extinguished, by the inhumanity of inconsiderate wit.

  21. The king made him sit at the table with him, and prayed him to relate how the Princess Jehaun-ara could have the inhumanity to transform into a bird so amiable a prince; and the king of Persia immediately satisfied him.

  22. Though inhumanity in Cuba was the cause of the war, to strike the enemy wherever he could be found was the demand of prudence and military science.

  23. Notwithstanding his beastly cruelty and inhumanity with innumerable wickednesses, allow not that he should be celebrated among the most excellent men.

  24. But this act of inhumanity was only part of a system of what was called justice; but which was the justice of the heathen, and not of the Christian.

  25. Hundreds of the Highlanders who escaped the inhumanity of their conquerors, died of their wounds or of hunger, in the hills, at twelve or fourteen miles' distance from the field of battle.

  26. Quite true; but, alas, inhumanity to man is nothing in comparison with the inhumanity which is recklessly exercised towards the horse.

  27. Unhappily, it is clear that we have not entirely left this phase of our development: the film One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest, for example, points to continuing inhumanity in some psychiatric hospitals.

  28. It was, after all, not more than a century ago that our mental hospitals were run with an inhumanity that {15} still can send shivers down one's spine.

  29. But he had learned no prudence, and the inhumanity of his last six years in his second reign exceeded that of his first reign.

  30. See, O emperor, into what a depth of shamelessness and inhumanity you have thrust yourself.

  31. Maiden modesty was cruelly violated, and every species of inhumanity was practiced by the infuriated antagonists.

  32. King Philip, showed themselves equally ardent in the defence of the Catholic faith, even if their ardor did not lead them to treat with inhumanity some member of their own family.


  33. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "inhumanity" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.