antihumanitarian

adjective

Definition of antihumanitariannext
as in malignant

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for antihumanitarian
  1. malignant
  2. virulent
  3. malicious
  4. malevolent
  5. uncharitable
  6. malign
  7. spiteful
  8. hateful
Adjective
  • The decision, lauded by consumer advocacy groups, comes a full 25 years after scientists at the agency determined that rats fed large amounts of the artificial color additive were much more likely to develop malignant thyroid tumors than rats who weren’t given the food coloring.
    Ryan Fonseca, Los Angeles Times, 16 Jan. 2025
  • Their mother, Noel Mickelson, died in 2016 from sepsis caused by bed sores, and a malignant tumor, according to Shannon Amos.
    Elizabeth Maline, NBC News, 6 Jan. 2025
Definition of malignant
Adjective
  • This is objectively true, and even the most virulent Kyle stan cannot object.
    Brian Moylan, Vulture, 10 Dec. 2024
  • The best-selling novel (and Apple TV+ series) Lessons in Chemistry recently dramatized the often virulent misogyny that existed in scientific settings; Joy looks at a subtler dynamic, in which the contributions that women played in scientific discovery was downplayed.
    Vogue, Vogue, 21 Nov. 2024
Definition of virulent
Adjective
  • While conceding that standard phishing methods, those that typically require threat actors to craft malicious emails that are delivered to a wide audience, are relatively easy for email platforms to detect and block, that’s not the case with this phishless attack.
    Davey Winder, Forbes, 11 Jan. 2025
  • Between 2012 and 2019 — with the courts inexplicably refusing to apply legal provisions ostensibly designed to prevent frivolous lawsuits such as Mann’s — we were forced to spend a considerable amount of time and money defending ourselves against his malicious, meritless suit.
    The Editors, National Review, 10 Jan. 2025
Definition of malicious
Adjective
  • Compliance watch on netflix Creep Year: 2014 Runtime: 1h 17m Director: Patrick Brice Director Patrick Brice draws something fascinating and malevolent out of Mark Duplass in these very low budget horror indies.
    Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 2 Jan. 2025
  • Austria Holiday fiend Krampus may have already gained some notoriety in the U.S. thanks to pop-culture portrayals such as the eponymous 2015 cult holiday horror film, but the malevolent half-goat, half-man anti-Santa traces back to folklore from Austria’s Alpine region.
    Chad de Guzman, TIME, 18 Dec. 2024
Definition of malevolent
Adjective
  • Mangum wasn’t the only fraudster who preyed on the Left’s uncharitable assumptions about young white men, in particular, but non-minorities broadly.
    The Editors, National Review, 17 Dec. 2024
  • He was tapped to star in the 1979 basketball comedy The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh, which survived uncharitable reviews to become a cult classic over the years.
    David Aldridge, The Athletic, 25 Nov. 2024
Definition of uncharitable
Adjective
  • The work ahead will be to encourage Trump’s better instincts, counter his more malign ones, and channel both into something resembling a coherent and constructive grand strategy.
    Charles A. Kupchan, The Atlantic, 10 Jan. 2025
  • Some see an opportunity to take care of all dimensions of the threat—both Tehran’s nuclear capabilities and its malign regional activities—in one fell swoop.
    Richard Haass, Foreign Affairs, 6 Jan. 2025
Definition of malign
Adjective
  • Share [Findings] Unaffiliated voters are growing more spiteful toward both Democrats and Republicans.
    Rafil Kroll-Zaidi, Harper's Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025
  • The end of the JCPOA made a spiteful Iran even more aggressive.
    Ali Vaez, Foreign Affairs, 8 May 2023
Definition of spiteful
Adjective
  • There’s no legal argument to be made against this turn away from fact-checking and towards a more freewheeling, more disinformation-laden, more confusing, more hateful and less illuminating approach.
    New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 13 Jan. 2025
  • With Zuckerberg’s decision to rescind policies barring hateful speech, he’s made clear that distinction is worth the possibility of political clout come Inauguration Day.
    Makena Kelly, WIRED, 9 Jan. 2025
Definition of hateful
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