Definitions
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- verb Past participle of
dehumanize
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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What is so harmful about this mixture of real-life street-tragedy and low-rent entertainment is that "COPS" and its brethren reduce our resistance to the kind of dehumanized "ultra-violence" Anthony Burgess hypothesized in his then-seemingly satiric 1962 novel "A Clockwork Orange."
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They are truly spellbound into a "dehumanized" state of consciousness.
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Jerry Austin, who identified himself as a former Anaheim fire chief, said the trial "dehumanized" Johnson and "humanized" a dog.
The Seattle Times 2010
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9 - You feel insulted and "dehumanized" when scientists say that people evolved from other life forms, but you have no problem with the Biblical claim that we were created from dirt.
10 Signs You Hold a Mythic Worldview William Harryman 2007
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9 - You feel insulted and "dehumanized" when scientists say that people evolved from other life forms, but you have no problem with the Biblical claim that we were created from dirt.
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9 - You feel insulted and "dehumanized" when scientists say that people evolved from other life forms, but you have no problem with the Biblical claim that we were created from dirt.
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9 - You feel insulted and "dehumanized" when scientists say that people evolved from other life forms, but you have no problem with the Biblical claim that we were created from dirt.
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9 - You feel insulted and "dehumanized" when scientists say that people evolved from other life forms, but you have no problem with the Biblical claim that we were created from dirt.
Queerty 2009
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9 - You feel insulted and "dehumanized" when scientists say that people evolved from other life forms, but you have no problem with the Biblical claim that we were created from dirt.
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Immigrants have been dehumanized and the issue has been analyzed in a reactionary way.
Hector E. Sanchez: A New Approach to Immigration: It's Time to Stop Blaming Immigrants Hector E. Sanchez 2011
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