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  • verb Present participle of dehumanise.

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Examples

  • We think the labour pyramid was built on the speculation that local services and local democracy and local connectedness are worth very little in a well supported well "oiled" corporate world - we cannot wait to see this unravel because of its long term dehumanising cruelty ..

    The News is NowPublic.com - NowPublic.com: The News is Now Public silvisrivers 2008

  • It also questioned why, if the university upheld human rights, it could produce students capable of making the "dehumanising" video.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2008

  • National Assembly on Friday, DA MP James Selfe said prison officials worked under "dehumanising" conditions.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2007

  • Violence in countries like Sierra Leone and the Democratic Republic of Congo were "dehumanising" the image of the rest of Africa,

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2000

  • The two organisations painted a grim picture of "dehumanising" conditions which social security grant applicants and recipients experienced in both townships and rural areas.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2000

  • Former apartheid spy Craig Williamson on Monday told the Truth and Reconciliation Commission that "dehumanising" his targets made it possible for him to carry out acts like letter bomb murders.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1998

  • It's a place with which she is already intimately acquainted, where prisoners are kept in conditions she once described as "dehumanising", "atrocious" and "barbarous".

    The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed 2009

  • It's a place with which she is already intimately acquainted, where prisoners are kept in conditions she once described as "dehumanising", "atrocious" and "barbarous".

    The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed 2009

  • Sunday Telegraph that social networks, along with mobile phones and texting, were in danger of "dehumanising" community life in this country.

    The Register 2009

  • It's a place with which she is already intimately acquainted, where prisoners are kept in conditions she once described as "dehumanising", "atrocious" and "barbarous".

    The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed 2009

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