How to Use subhuman in a Sentence

subhuman

1 of 2 adjective

• The prisoners suffered subhuman treatment.
• The president is proof that a subhuman nonthinking white man can one day become the leader of the free world.
  — Stephen A. Crockett Jr., The Root, 28 Feb. 2018
• All around her, in the heart of Hollywood, people were living in subhuman conditions, sprawled beside storefronts and at bus stops.
  — Steve Lopezcolumnist, Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2019
• This is a common theme of white supremacy -- reducing nonwhites to a subhuman level through language.
  — John Blake, CNN, 17 Aug. 2019
• Ted Nugent, vile racist who called Obama a subhuman mongrel, feted by Donald Trump.
  — Glenn Thrush, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2017
• The stars and stripes wave over a vast concentration camp that houses ape slaves in subsimian, never mind subhuman, conditions.
  — Joe Morgenstern, WSJ, 13 July 2017
• In 2017, in Alabama, there are public high schools named after men who thought people with darker skin than themselves were subhuman and needed to be slaves forever.
  — Joseph Goodman, AL.com, 25 May 2017
• Africans were enslaved because of their low cost, subhuman status, and agricultural skills, Williams-Forson said.
  — Lateshia Beachum, Washington Post, 24 Aug. 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, 20 June 2018
• Yet new science is showing that Neanderthals weren't subhuman so much as other than human, living alongside us for many years in Europe, even interbreeding.
  — Steve Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 6 July 2017
• Here’s just one component — research shows that the perception of black people as subhuman and ape-like directly informs the public’s view of whether police brutality against a black suspect is deserved.
  — Ellen McGirt, Fortune, 31 May 2018
• Slaves, by contrast, were considered property, a subhuman legal status that was passed from mother to child, in perpetuity.
  — Eoin O'Carroll, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Mar. 2018
• In the Trumpian universe, immigrants pose a superhuman threat but are themselves of subhuman significance.
  — Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 5 July 2019
• The couple allegedly kept their 13 children in subhuman conditions.
  — Matt Naham, ajc, 24 Jan. 2018
• We have been subjected to grueling and subhuman conditions.
  — Shelly Levine, sun-sentinel.com, 15 Aug. 2019
• The history of immigration policy is filled with moments like these, when a group goes from subhuman to superhuman within a few short years, because of political winds beyond their grasp.
  — Hua Hsu, The New Yorker, 15 Feb. 2017
• Germans used the word Untermenschen, which literally means subhuman, to describe Jews while making plans to exterminate them.
  — Katy Steinmetz, Time, 18 May 2018
• Genocides throughout history have involved the victims being compared to something subhuman.
  — Katy Steinmetz, Time, 18 May 2018
• Perhaps an entire information industry will be devoted to marginalizing them and calling them Nazis and reducing them to subhuman status.
  — John Kass, chicagotribune.com, 12 Sep. 2019
• Derogatory language — where protesters term officers dogs and gangsters, and police call demonstrators subhuman and cockroaches — has become a hallmark of Hong Kong’s protests as clashes have escalated.
  — Washington Post, 4 Nov. 2019
• 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, 20 June 2018
• Pronouncing whole categories of people as subhuman numbs a nation’s moral sense and, in extreme but, unfortunately, too many cases, becomes a rationale for collective cruelty.
  — Eugene Scott, Washington Post, 21 May 2018
• 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, 2 Aug. 2019
• Americans are also prone, surveys suggest, to find their subhuman opponents extremely disagreeable.
  — The Economist, 24 May 2018
• The remarks quickly drew criticism — widely interpreted as Trump once again characterizing Latinx immigrants as subhuman rapists and criminals.
  — German Lopez, Vox, 18 May 2018
• His agencies have dehumanized and abused migrants, forcing them into subhuman conditions without accountability or oversight.
  — Charlie Lapastora, Fox News, 16 Aug. 2019
• When committed by terrorists, criminals, or protesters, violence is horrific, and its perpetrators are subhuman.
  — Peter Beinart, The Atlantic, 20 Oct. 2017
• More specifically, as criminologist John Pfaff pointed out, a willingness to accept criminals as subhuman encourages law enforcement officers to treat them accordingly, with often horrific results.
  — Dara Lind, Vox, 21 May 2018
• The prisoners suffered subhuman treatment.
• The president is proof that a subhuman nonthinking white man can one day become the leader of the free world.
  — Stephen A. Crockett Jr., The Root, 28 Feb. 2018

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subhuman

2 of 2 noun

• The South fired the first shots of the Civil War out of greed, hatred, and a mass delusion that blacks were subhumans who were destined to serve whites.
  — Solomon Jones, Philly.com, 31 Oct. 2017
• Anyone that is in country music and had to look at that bulls— today and feel subhuman.
  — Ashley Iasimone, Billboard, 27 Aug. 2022
• These groups appear as subhumans to those taking the survey.
  — Brian Resnick, Vox, 14 Aug. 2018
• Classes at school did not teach me about the internment of Japanese-Americans, nor about all of the rest of the groups deemed subhuman.
  — TheWeek, 6 Aug. 2020
• In the popular press, the Irish were depicted as subhuman.
  — Michael Harriot, The Root, 17 Mar. 2018
• Something subhuman—weaker, stranger, more destructive than the rest of us.
  — Josie Duffy Rice, The Atlantic, 12 July 2018
• Thanks to all who have been supportive and informative! #KeepStandingUp and #youtoo to all the subhumans who have hurt people.
  — Madeleine Marr, miamiherald, 13 Dec. 2017
• These descriptions aligned with the treatment of Black people’s bodies during the slave trade, where they were deemed both subhuman and at the same time having superhuman strength.
  — USA Today, 1 Oct. 2020
• For 50 years, Bartholomew fought for Taino people’s rights during an era when they were seen as subhuman—a lighter, more feeble alternative to a proper Negro slave.
  — Ian Graber-Stiehl, The Root, 1 Sep. 2017
• Criminalizing black men and deeming them subhuman, more akin to beasts in the field than white men, served to justify the brutality they were dealt, Yancy said.
  — Eliott C. McLaughlin, CNN, 3 June 2020
• The voyages were planned with conditions so indelibly subhuman that deportees would never again want to return to the United States.
  — Julia Preston, The New York Review of Books, 22 Sep. 2020
• In their eyes, the Eldians are a stand-in for white people in Western countries, punished for the crimes of their ancestors’ empires and besieged by subhuman monsters trying to enter their land.
  — Shaan Amin, The New Republic, 16 Nov. 2020
• But Myanmar’s Buddhist majority drove them out in the first place, creating a climate of hate that vilified the Rohingya as subhuman.
  — Jeffrey Gettleman, New York Times, 3 Nov. 2017
• Initially, the oppressors declared that only Christians had a soul; everyone else was subhuman and could be treated as such.
  — Keith Magee, CNN, 17 May 2022
• Here in the United States, by contrast, the enslaved were relegated to subhuman status for generations.
  — Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 16 Sep. 2022
• Only this farm belongs to Frank’s brother (David Andrew Nash), who exists only to make the point that today’s immigrant workers are also treated as subhuman.
  — Amy Nicholson, Variety, 23 Jan. 2022
• Impregnatable people, in the right-wing conception, constitute a distinct, female, and subhuman class: a resource that requires domination due to the value of what can be extracted.
  — Charlotte Shane, Harper’s Magazine , 28 Sep. 2022
• Both Armenia and Azerbaijan have marshaled musicians, Twitter and Facebook partisans, officials and lobbyists to trumpet their cause and paint the other side as subhuman killers.
  — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 10 Nov. 2020
• These families are vulnerable, seeking safety and asylum, but they’re being treated like subhumans.
  — Patrick Marley, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 25 June 2018
• That assessment hit the newsstands one day after New York state troopers and other authorities gunned down 39 men in the facility’s main yard, terminating a five-day uprising ignited by subhuman, racist conditions.
  — Washington Post, 6 Oct. 2021
• 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, 9 July 2019
• Instead, people with viruses are represented as reckless, dangerous, and subhuman.
  — Melissa Gira Grant, The New Republic, 6 Sep. 2022
• That incredibly deep insight explains why all women who can't experience the miracle of birth or motherhood automatically transform into subhuman troglodytes.
  — Jeremy Hsu, Discover Magazine, 22 Apr. 2016
• The South fired the first shots of the Civil War out of greed, hatred, and a mass delusion that blacks were subhumans who were destined to serve whites.
  — Solomon Jones, Philly.com, 31 Oct. 2017
• Anyone that is in country music and had to look at that bulls— today and feel subhuman.
  — Ashley Iasimone, Billboard, 27 Aug. 2022
• These groups appear as subhumans to those taking the survey.
  — Brian Resnick, Vox, 14 Aug. 2018
• Classes at school did not teach me about the internment of Japanese-Americans, nor about all of the rest of the groups deemed subhuman.
  — TheWeek, 6 Aug. 2020
• In the popular press, the Irish were depicted as subhuman.
  — Michael Harriot, The Root, 17 Mar. 2018
• Something subhuman—weaker, stranger, more destructive than the rest of us.
  — Josie Duffy Rice, The Atlantic, 12 July 2018
• Thanks to all who have been supportive and informative! #KeepStandingUp and #youtoo to all the subhumans who have hurt people.
  — Madeleine Marr, miamiherald, 13 Dec. 2017

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