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- verb Past participle of
dehumanise
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective divested of human qualities or attributes
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Examples
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And why are the 'dehumanised' Palestinians never short of cash for guns and people to shoot them? phil
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008
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He said he saw people involved in ANC structures as the enemy and "dehumanised" them.
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Colleagues have detailed similar experiences, describing their anger and the suspicion that the processes involved are cynical; saying that they felt dehumanised and powerless.
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It was as if all human life was at Passmores and, crucially, among an age group that is all too often dehumanised.
It's all too easy to hate teens – try a little love instead | Barbara Ellen 2011
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But it is hard to see what Stephens is telling us beyond the fact we inhabit a heartless, dehumanised world where sex is commodified and children are subject to various forms of abuse.
Wastwater - review 2011
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The women are not objectified, dehumanised, stripped of their personal power, made the objects of male fantasies or treated like sexual receptacles or blow up dolls.
Protest the lifting of Parallel Import Restrictions karenmiller 2009
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For Moutzan-Martinengo, the news of the Revolution sparked an outcry against the dehumanised condition of women, particularly the women of the aristocracy, and by extension the despair of systematic exclusion from all the projects of humanity.
Arms and the Woman: Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity 2008
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Unfortunately, the suspected ‘witches’ and ‘wizards’ are either abandoned by their parents/guardians, dehumanised, poisoned to death with a local berry, hurled into the river, buried alive, severely maltreated and thrown into the street or clandestinely killed.
Nigeria sees rise in number of children accussed of witchcraft 2008
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I think, at least for some male authors, the characters are intentionally dehumanised, or cookie cutter archetypes are used, so that they don't have to include much characterisation to slow down the action.
So, what is it about women's fiction... Glenda Larke 2010
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On the one side, there was the rhetoric of the KKE/DSE, which eulogised women warriors, and on the other, the increasingly powerful countermovement that dehumanised them.
Arms and the Woman: Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity 2008
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