Inhumane
adjective
Very cruel or brutal, not caring about people's suffering or comfort.
The inhumane treatment of prisoners was widely condemned.
Often appears as...
- inhumane treatment
- inhumane conditions
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Disapproving
adjective
Very cruel or brutal, not caring about people's suffering or comfort.
The inhumane treatment of prisoners was widely condemned.
Often appears as...
- inhumane treatment
- inhumane conditions
Usage tips
Disapproving
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Pro Tip 1/3Emotional Weight
Inhumane has a strong negative tone, revealing that something is shockingly cruel.
The movie depicted the inhumane realities of war.
Pro Tip 2/3Human Suffering
'Inhumane' implies actions that cause physical or psychological pain to people or animals.
Forcing children to work long hours is inhumane.
Pro Tip 3/3Social Condemnation
Using 'inhumane' in a sentence often suggests social or ethical disapproval.
The inhumane policy sparked outrage across the nation.
Pro Tip 1/3Emotional Weight
Inhumane has a strong negative tone, revealing that something is shockingly cruel.
The movie depicted the inhumane realities of war.
Pro Tip 2/3Human Suffering
'Inhumane' implies actions that cause physical or psychological pain to people or animals.
Forcing children to work long hours is inhumane.
Pro Tip 3/3Social Condemnation
Using 'inhumane' in a sentence often suggests social or ethical disapproval.
The inhumane policy sparked outrage across the nation.
Pro Tip 1/3Emotional Weight
Inhumane has a strong negative tone, revealing that something is shockingly cruel.
The movie depicted the inhumane realities of war.
Pro Tip 2/3Human Suffering
'Inhumane' implies actions that cause physical or psychological pain to people or animals.
Forcing children to work long hours is inhumane.
Pro Tip 3/3Social Condemnation
Using 'inhumane' in a sentence often suggests social or ethical disapproval.
The inhumane policy sparked outrage across the nation.
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Why we have an emotional...
and it would walk around a minefield on its legs, and every time it stepped on a mine, one of the legs would blow up, and it would continue on the other legs to blow up more mines. And the colonel who was in charge of this testing exercise ends up calling it off, because, he says, it's too inhumane
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How Syria's architecture...
we shouldn't underestimate the way in which, by contributing to the loss of identity and self-respect, urban zoning and misguided, inhumane architecture have nurtured sectarian divisions and hatred. Over time, the united city has morphed into a city center with ghettos along its circumference.
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Surviving a nuclear...
is abolition of nuclear weapons you want something to work on once you fix global warming I urge you to think about the fact that we have to do something about this unacceptable inhumane reality of nuclear weapons in our world now this is my favorite civil
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Baby Parrots Rescued...
unfortunately quite common most baby parrots never even make it to market the vast majority die on root the way the people carry these animals is completely inhumane they're wrapped up in plastic bags they usually can't breathe and that is why there's a
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What if we replaced...
but during various revolutions, they tended to lose their heads. And this guy, you probably know. Here in Hungary, you lived for many years under one attempt to implement his answer of how to live together. His answer was brutal, cruel and inhumane.
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Alaska Twins Live Off...
some people think that's inhumane to catch an animal in a trap it's really no more cruel for an animal to die in a trap than it is to be crushed in the jaws of a wolf or died over a period of a month of starvation that is life in
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Shaka Senghor: Why your...
And because of my activity, I landed in solitary confinement for seven and a half years out of my incarceration. Now as I see it, solitary confinement is one of the most inhumane and barbaric places you can find yourself,
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Our refugee system is...
that separate children from their families, and that seize property from refugees. What are we doing? How has the situation come to this, that we've adopted such an inhumane response to a humanitarian crisis?
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A Belly Full of Cocaine...
And then he said, right, get in there. And you're going to sleep on that floor there. There's people everywhere. It was overcrowded. It was like, it's inhumane living conditions.
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Fighting injustice with...
larger process leading to the current closure of all such children in situations in the country when I think about the inhumane suffering I have observed all these
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Why we have an emotional...
and it would walk around a minefield on its legs, and every time it stepped on a mine, one of the legs would blow up, and it would continue on the other legs to blow up more mines. And the colonel who was in charge of this testing exercise ends up calling it off, because, he says, it's too inhumane
Video examples
How Syria's architecture...
we shouldn't underestimate the way in which, by contributing to the loss of identity and self-respect, urban zoning and misguided, inhumane architecture have nurtured sectarian divisions and hatred. Over time, the united city has morphed into a city center with ghettos along its circumference.
Video examples
Surviving a nuclear...
is abolition of nuclear weapons you want something to work on once you fix global warming I urge you to think about the fact that we have to do something about this unacceptable inhumane reality of nuclear weapons in our world now this is my favorite civil
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Baby Parrots Rescued...
unfortunately quite common most baby parrots never even make it to market the vast majority die on root the way the people carry these animals is completely inhumane they're wrapped up in plastic bags they usually can't breathe and that is why there's a
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What if we replaced...
but during various revolutions, they tended to lose their heads. And this guy, you probably know. Here in Hungary, you lived for many years under one attempt to implement his answer of how to live together. His answer was brutal, cruel and inhumane.
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Alaska Twins Live Off...
some people think that's inhumane to catch an animal in a trap it's really no more cruel for an animal to die in a trap than it is to be crushed in the jaws of a wolf or died over a period of a month of starvation that is life in
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Shaka Senghor: Why your...
And because of my activity, I landed in solitary confinement for seven and a half years out of my incarceration. Now as I see it, solitary confinement is one of the most inhumane and barbaric places you can find yourself,
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Our refugee system is...
that separate children from their families, and that seize property from refugees. What are we doing? How has the situation come to this, that we've adopted such an inhumane response to a humanitarian crisis?
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A Belly Full of Cocaine...
And then he said, right, get in there. And you're going to sleep on that floor there. There's people everywhere. It was overcrowded. It was like, it's inhumane living conditions.
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Fighting injustice with...
larger process leading to the current closure of all such children in situations in the country when I think about the inhumane suffering I have observed all these
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Nancy Pearcey
American Author
If pro-abortionists want to commit intellectual suicide and deny scientific facts, that's their problem. But there's no reason a civilized society should fund their anti-scientific outlook - or accept its inhumane consequences.
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Steve Jurvetson
American Businessman
In manufacturing, too much work is beyond repetitive - it is inhumane. The people doing this work aren't doing it because they want to - they are doing it because they have families to feed and clothe.
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Kevin Nealon
American Comedian
I became a vegetarian after I became aware of factory farming and slaughterhouses and the torture and inhumane handling of all these animals.
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Howard Zinn
American Historian
Americans have been taught that their nation is civilized and humane. But, too often, U.S. actions have been uncivilized and inhumane.
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George W. Bush
American President
States should have the right to enact laws... particularly to end the inhumane practice of ending a life that otherwise could live.
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Peter Maurer
Swiss Activist
Experience shows that the reliance on illegal, immoral, and inhumane interrogation techniques is universally a very poor choice.
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Stephanie Ruhle
American Journalist
The inhumane treatment of families turned an immigration issue into an immigration crisis.
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Jacques Audiard
French Director
In movies, it's so easy to have this 'boom,' to kill, and I think that's inhumane.
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Gary Ackerman
American Politician
Telling people not to have children is unthinkable and inhumane.
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Tite
Brazilian Coach
It is inhumane to put sole responsibility on one athlete.
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Nancy Pearcey
American Author
If pro-abortionists want to commit intellectual suicide and deny scientific facts, that's their problem. But there's no reason a civilized society should fund their anti-scientific outlook - or accept its inhumane consequences.
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Steve Jurvetson
American Businessman
In manufacturing, too much work is beyond repetitive - it is inhumane. The people doing this work aren't doing it because they want to - they are doing it because they have families to feed and clothe.
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Kevin Nealon
American Comedian
I became a vegetarian after I became aware of factory farming and slaughterhouses and the torture and inhumane handling of all these animals.
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Howard Zinn
American Historian
Americans have been taught that their nation is civilized and humane. But, too often, U.S. actions have been uncivilized and inhumane.
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George W. Bush
American President
States should have the right to enact laws... particularly to end the inhumane practice of ending a life that otherwise could live.
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Peter Maurer
Swiss Activist
Experience shows that the reliance on illegal, immoral, and inhumane interrogation techniques is universally a very poor choice.
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Stephanie Ruhle
American Journalist
The inhumane treatment of families turned an immigration issue into an immigration crisis.
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Jacques Audiard
French Director
In movies, it's so easy to have this 'boom,' to kill, and I think that's inhumane.
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Gary Ackerman
American Politician
Telling people not to have children is unthinkable and inhumane.
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Tite
Brazilian Coach
It is inhumane to put sole responsibility on one athlete.
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