subhuman
adjective
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Synonyms for subhuman
Synonyms: Adjective
animalistic, beastly, bestial, brutal, brute, brutish, feral, ferine, swinish
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Examples of subhuman in a Sentence
Adjective
The prisoners suffered subhuman treatment. years of grinding poverty that had reduced them to a subhuman existenceRecent Examples on the Web: Adjective
This is a common theme of white supremacy -- reducing nonwhites to a subhuman level through language. — John Blake, CNN, "Why El Paso and other recent attacks in the US are modern-day lynchings," 17 Aug. 2019 His agencies have dehumanized and abused migrants, forcing them into subhuman conditions without accountability or oversight. — Charlie Lapastora, Fox News, "New temporary migrant holding facility opens this week at the border due to overcrowding concerns and 'immigration crisis'," 16 Aug. 2019 We have been subjected to grueling and subhuman conditions. — Shelly Levine, sun-sentinel.com, "Keeping a promise to observe and help | Opinion," 15 Aug. 2019 An October 1971 exchange between a then-current and future Republican presidents is a reminder that an Oval Office occupant using language suggesting black people are inferior and subhuman is not new. — Eugene Scott, Twin Cities, "Eugene Scott: The new Reagan tapes are ugly, but not surprising, to a lot of black Americans," 2 Aug. 2019 In the Trumpian universe, immigrants pose a superhuman threat but are themselves of subhuman significance. — Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, "Donald Trump’s “Inoffensive” War on Reality," 5 July 2019 The widespread belief that Africans were not fully human, but rather subhuman, propped up the Confederacy’s defense of itself. — Sarah Jones, The New Republic, "Why Tyrants Dehumanize the Powerless," 20 June 2018 Germans used the word Untermenschen, which literally means subhuman, to describe Jews while making plans to exterminate them. — Katy Steinmetz, Time, "Why Calling Donald Trump an 'Animal' Doesn't Fix Anything," 18 May 2018 Modern history is full of examples of political regimes that has described certain populations as subhuman—often to justify treating them as such. — Sarah Jones, The New Republic, "Why Tyrants Dehumanize the Powerless," 20 June 2018Recent Examples on the Web: Noun
These groups appear as subhumans to those taking the survey. — Brian Resnick, Vox, "Donald Trump and the disturbing power of dehumanizing language," 14 Aug. 2018 Tuesday’s change broadens the hate speech rule to forbid likening entire religious groups to subhumans or vermin, without targeting a specific individual. — Washington Post, "Twitter bans ‘dehumanizing’ posts toward religious groups," 9 July 2019 Something subhuman—weaker, stranger, more destructive than the rest of us. — Josie Duffy Rice, The Atlantic, "The Gospel According to Pusha T," 12 July 2018 These groups appear as subhumans to those taking the survey. — Brian Resnick, Vox, "Donald Trump and the disturbing power of dehumanizing language," 14 Aug. 2018 These groups appear as subhumans to those taking the survey. — Brian Resnick, Vox, "Donald Trump and the disturbing power of dehumanizing language," 14 Aug. 2018 These groups appear as subhumans to those taking the survey. — Brian Resnick, Vox, "Donald Trump and the disturbing power of dehumanizing language," 14 Aug. 2018 These groups appear as subhumans to those taking the survey. — Brian Resnick, Vox, "Donald Trump and the disturbing power of dehumanizing language," 14 Aug. 2018 These families are vulnerable, seeking safety and asylum, but they’re being treated like subhumans. — Patrick Marley, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, "Scott Walker touts protecting border in ads, but mum on Trump's immigration stances," 25 June 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'subhuman.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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