How to Use dehumanizing in a Sentence

dehumanizing

adjective

• In the dehumanizing circus of royal life, her relationship with her sons is her one source of love and joy.
  — Vulture, 11 Jan. 2022
• This dehumanizing rhetoric went down well with many of Trump’s hard-core supporters.
  — John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 14 Nov. 2023
• Boiling a little under the surface is incredulity and anger at the dehumanizing impact of the prison system.
  — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Jan. 2024
• The problem was not with other places, or with the man wanting to see them, but with travel’s dehumanizing effect, which thrust him among people to whom he was forced to relate as a spectator.
  — Agnes Callard, The New Yorker, 24 June 2023
• They are brought to life by heart-rending first-person video stories: One Apache man describes the dehumanizing fate of his grandfather, who was held by American forces as a prisoner of war for 27 years.
  — Judith H. Dobrzynski, WSJ, 23 Apr. 2022
• Some of these have promoted Holocaust denial and attacked Jews in dehumanizing terms.
  — Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 13 Oct. 2023
• Dawson said such policies are part of the dehumanizing legacy of chattel slavery, where people with darker skin and kinkier hair were never allowed to work indoors.
  — Libor Jany, Los Angeles Times, 8 Dec. 2023
• Thinking about those achievements, Flewellen says that even the most unsettling chapters of America’s past can offer valuable lessons to those who yearn for acceptance about how to persevere over the dehumanizing rhetoric of the present.
  — Tyrone Beasonstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 6 Mar. 2023
• Both the works and their presentation try to make something horrible and dehumanizing seem sacred and beautiful.
  — Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 21 July 2023
• Getting onto these ships was essential not just to hear from the crew, including some that said they were being held against their will, but also to experience first hand the gritty and dehumanizing conditions on board.
  — Ian Urbina, TIME, 26 Oct. 2023
• The book shared her remarkable story of self-possession under the most dehumanizing circumstances.
  — Cynthia Greenlee, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Feb. 2024
• Five years after the Charleston slaughter, which claimed the life of a cousin, the Rev. Waltrina Middleton wrote that insisting on a narrative of forgiveness is dehumanizing and violent.
  — M.j. Andersen, BostonGlobe.com, 24 Nov. 2022
• No child should ever be subjected to such racist, mean and dehumanizing comments, especially from a public official.
  — Kimberly Nordyke, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Oct. 2022
• Larson is wary of the dehumanizing effects of global superstardom.
  — Carina Chocano, Harper's BAZAAR, 23 Mar. 2023
• The court's ruling on Friday cited a series of statements made by Israeli leaders as evidence of incitement and dehumanizing language against Palestinians.
  — Najib Jobain, arkansasonline.com, 29 Jan. 2024
• The language also had a dehumanizing effect, Handley said.
  — La Risa R. Lynch, Journal Sentinel, 7 Dec. 2022
• Returning to your humanity can heal the dehumanizing effects of combat.
  — Noël Lipana, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 Aug. 2021
• In a country where movie stars have a cult-like following, and movies reflect as well as shape mass behavior, making dehumanizing violence and casual sexism aspirational can be damaging, observers said.
  — Vineeta Deepak, Fortune, 2 Jan. 2024
• Advocates for the right to die, a movement that dates back to the 1970s, have historically raised concerns about the potentially dehumanizing nature of these interventions, which can lengthen a person’s life without improving its quality.
  — Jonathan Moens, Ars Technica, 8 Aug. 2022
• While living in Mississippi, Eliza was a sharecropper, a dehumanizing labor system implemented after slavery was abolished in the South.
  — Keyaira Kelly, refinery29.com, 19 June 2024
• In 2021, Twitter’s then-safety team published an essay in defense of anonymity, although Twitter at that time was different in other ways, including its enforcement of a policy against hateful or dehumanizing imagery.
  — David Ingram, NBC News, 21 Mar. 2024
• Without ruining the ending, Benito Cereno explores assumptions associated with race and class, as well as grappling with the dehumanizing effects of chattel slavery.
  — Sarah Schutte, National Review, 6 Sep. 2021
• Exactly how will Miller be held accountable for his unconscionable actions and dehumanizing behavior?
  — Richard Morin, USA TODAY, 5 Nov. 2022
• The ruling offers the Biden administration an opportunity to emphasize its strong displeasure, backed by international law, with the dehumanizing rhetoric that has come from members of Israel’s right-wing cabinet.
  — David Kaye, Foreign Affairs, 26 Jan. 2024
• Holland and the production team have spoken out against the messages of hate, continuing to urge audiences to not look away from the ongoing humanitarian crisis and to resist the dehumanizing narrative spread by government authorities.
  — Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 21 Nov. 2023
• The upper classes’ ingestion of psychedelics to serve not themselves but the pitiless creative demands of capitalism is no less dehumanizing than the proletariat’s ingestion of crystal meth to increase capitalism’s demand for physical endurance.
  — Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 28 June 2023
• To consume information slowly becomes, in this telling, an act of resistance against a dehumanizing technological order.
  — Nate Anderson, Ars Technica, 11 May 2022
• American prisons are a dehumanizing, torturous environment; few people come out of jail less violent.
  — Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 4 Jan. 2023
• There is a belief that the modern justice system, which essentially requires a suspect to deny their guilt, doesn’t help a survivor heal, and the dehumanizing conditions of prison certainly aren’t a rehabilitative environment for violators.
  — Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 27 Feb. 2024
• The app generated disturbing imagery when Snow uploaded her childhood photos, changing what would have been stylized mementos into dehumanizing imagery.
  — Reece Rogers, WIRED, 9 Dec. 2022

Last Updated: 17 Dec 2024