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dehumanise::verb | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | dehumanize |
| Type of | mechanise, mechanize |
Examples of dehumanise
dehumanise
Social tools can help us but then also hinder us, they dehumanise what we do.
From the guardian.co.uk
It's easy to make people into monsters and dehumanise them.
From the metro.co.uk
I mean, once you dehumanise a group or sub-group, then whatever you do to them is no longer unethical.
From the guardian.co.uk
Never my intention to depersonalise or dehumanise anyone.
From the markvernon.com
They are herded in ghettos, their land and water stolen, their infrastructure undermined to dehumanise them.
From the independent.co.uk
Thus, there's the tendency to dehumanise people.
From the markvernon.com
Donor agencies need funding, so they will continue to present images that dehumanise wide swathes of the World's population.
From the guardian.co.uk
Do the artists realise that their music is used to dehumanise, inflict untold pain, humiliation and suffering on fellow human beings?
From the morningstaronline.co.uk
To treat others with contempt or to fail to acknowledge their existence and rights, is to dehumanise not only the other person but also oneself.
From the thisisbristol.co.uk
- Dehumanize: deprive of human qualities; "Life in poverty has dehumanized them"
- Dehumanize: make mechanical or routine
- (dehumanisation) dehumanization: the act of degrading people with respect to their best qualities; "science has been blamed for the dehumanization of modern life"
- Dehumanization is the process by which members of a group of people assert the "inferiority" of another group through subtle or overt acts or statements. ...
- (Dehumanisation) is a psychological state and linguistic transition which occurs during conflict which both justifies past behaviour; and encourages future aggressive conflict (eg policemen are "pigs"; Bill is "the manager", Mary is "that bimbo" etc)
- (dehumanising) v. tr. Effects of militia attack that killed the child, not exacerbated by the journalists who require the grieving eyewitness mother to describe the ordeal (preferably with tears) in a thirty second soundbite. ...
- An attempt by the Nazis to brutalise or take away the human qualities of a person or people.
