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Definition of inhumane in English: inhumaneadjective ɪnhjʊˈmeɪnˌɪn(h)juˈmeɪn Without compassion for misery or suffering; cruel. 不近人情的，不人道的；残酷的 confining wild horses is inhumane Example sentencesExamples - Furthermore we live in an age where we need not kill a criminal in an inhumane way.
- The standard of treatment is now well established as illegal and inhumane.
- If those who have the power to change this law have listened to my story, then I hope they will see that the law is cruel, barbaric and inhumane.
- I hate it when my countrymen and I are branded as inhumane, criminals, or some other nasty term.
- Mainly though, they, and I, think it is wrong to chase and kill animals in such an inhumane and totally unnecessary way.
- Brutal, cruel, inhumane and disturbing violence happens all over the world.
- Their conduct was not only inhumane and barbaric, it was also plainly illegal.
- This is inhumane and will create more tensions between the two countries.
- I do not think that this should include hypothetical discussions about a management that most would agree to be inhumane.
- The interior ministers saw no reason to stop this inhumane and barbaric practice, however.
- Because of the inhumane nature of slavery, slave revolts became commonplace in Jamaica.
- Most of this is produced in intensive farming systems which are extremely cruel and inhumane.
- He has been treated in a cruel, inhumane and degrading manner, he wants the authorities to answer for that.
- Why is it that violent and inhumane acts are screened daily on television?
- Patriotism constantly plays upon people's insecurities and fears to justify very inhumane behaviour.
- Even in its most inhumane form, child labour, he argues, is not the problem.
- Hundreds of thousands of slaves died under inhumane conditions.
- They were made to labour under most inhumane conditions in a strange land.
- Sadly, many nations suffer from despotic, inhumane regimes, and we play sport with them.
- There are those who decry landmines as inhumane, but that is not always the case.
Synonyms cruel, harsh, brutal, callous, sadistic, severe, savage, vicious, barbaric, barbarous bestial, monstrous, inhuman, fiendish, diabolical, evil, wicked, heinous merciless, ruthless, pitiless, unpitying, remorseless, cold-blooded, heartless, hard-hearted, stone-hearted, with a heart of stone, unforgiving unkind, unkindly, inconsiderate, unsympathetic, unfeeling, uncaring informal hard-boiled, hard-nosed British informal, dated beastly archaic dastardly, sanguinary rare egregious, flagitious
Derivativesadverb Moreover, he must reconcile himself to the fact that, in order to maintain his power, he will often be forced by necessity to act treacherously, ruthlessly or inhumanely. Example sentencesExamples - They've been picked out and treated very inhumanely, without a chance to rectify a mistake or correct their status.
- They are said to have inhumanely treated internees, who sustained injuries following repeated assaults.
- See, it's important to me as a consumer that the food on my plate has not raised inhumanely.
- Irrespective of the final ruling by the highest court, the government is required to take some responsibility for the mysterious suicides of soldiers and duly compensate the parents of those who were treated inhumanely.
OriginLate Middle English (in the sense 'inhuman, brutal'): originally a variant of inhuman (rare after 1700); in modern use from in-1 'not' + humane (the current sense dating from the early 19th century). Definition of inhumane in US English: inhumaneadjectiveˌɪn(h)juˈmeɪnˌin(h)yo͞oˈmān Without compassion for misery or suffering; cruel. 不近人情的，不人道的；残酷的 confining wild horses is inhumane Example sentencesExamples - I do not think that this should include hypothetical discussions about a management that most would agree to be inhumane.
- He has been treated in a cruel, inhumane and degrading manner, he wants the authorities to answer for that.
- Mainly though, they, and I, think it is wrong to chase and kill animals in such an inhumane and totally unnecessary way.
- Most of this is produced in intensive farming systems which are extremely cruel and inhumane.
- The interior ministers saw no reason to stop this inhumane and barbaric practice, however.
- The standard of treatment is now well established as illegal and inhumane.
- Furthermore we live in an age where we need not kill a criminal in an inhumane way.
- There are those who decry landmines as inhumane, but that is not always the case.
- If those who have the power to change this law have listened to my story, then I hope they will see that the law is cruel, barbaric and inhumane.
- Brutal, cruel, inhumane and disturbing violence happens all over the world.
- This is inhumane and will create more tensions between the two countries.
- Sadly, many nations suffer from despotic, inhumane regimes, and we play sport with them.
- Patriotism constantly plays upon people's insecurities and fears to justify very inhumane behaviour.
- Because of the inhumane nature of slavery, slave revolts became commonplace in Jamaica.
- I hate it when my countrymen and I are branded as inhumane, criminals, or some other nasty term.
- Hundreds of thousands of slaves died under inhumane conditions.
- They were made to labour under most inhumane conditions in a strange land.
- Why is it that violent and inhumane acts are screened daily on television?
- Their conduct was not only inhumane and barbaric, it was also plainly illegal.
- Even in its most inhumane form, child labour, he argues, is not the problem.
Synonyms cruel, harsh, brutal, callous, sadistic, severe, savage, vicious, barbaric, barbarous
OriginLate Middle English (in the sense ‘inhuman, brutal’): originally a variant of inhuman (rare after 1700); in modern use from in- ‘not’ + humane (the current sense dating from the early 19th century). |