: depriving someone of human qualities, personality, or dignity : demeaning or damaging to a person's humanity or individuality
a dehumanizing caricature/slur
dehumanizing statistics
Before even being allowed to call a lawyer, the arrestee is faced with the dehumanizing treatment of a strip search … John W. Whitehead
This kind of language is deliberately dehumanizing: the athlete is referred to not as a person but as a "brand", throughout. Felix Salmon
Inmates at the South Carolina prison cited dehumanizing conditions such as a lack of sunlight, poor and insufficient food, and few rehabilitative programs as reasons they lost hope. Aaron Cantú
Not only are writers selling their products, they essentially become their products: author as commodity. It's a weirdly dehumanizing experience. Rachel Donadio
… the dehumanizing nastiness of having your intimate personal photos hacked … Joe Fay