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inhumane

[in-hyoo-meyn or, often, -yoo-]

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adjective

not humane; lacking humanity, kindness, compassion, etc.

Origin:
1590–1600; variant of inhuman; see in-³, humane

Related forms

in·hu·mane·ly, adverb

Can be confused: inhuman, inhumane.

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And if two die, officials say it would be inhumane to sustain an exhibit with a single elephant.

Several years later, a few courageous individuals began to protest the inhumane treatment of fat people and fat bodies.

Inside the prisons, this means inhumane overcrowding.

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And if two die, officials say it would be inhumane to sustain an exhibit with a single elephant.

Several years later, a few courageous individuals began to protest the inhumane treatment of fat people and fat bodies.

Inside the prisons, this means inhumane overcrowding.

Animal welfare experts say the facility should be closed down because of its inhumane enclosures.

If effective, humane methods of reducing the current population are not soon found inhumane methods will be naturally applied.

What's inhumane is some of you complaining buttholes but purebreds from a breeder, rather than adopting an unwanted animal.

Of course, we'd have to discount the inhumane situation presented in the book first.

The tenure and promotion process isn't only inhumane for women who want and have children, it's inhumane for everyone.

Brazil is responding to international condemnation of its inhumane treatment of prisoners by building more prisons.

Report any inhumane treatment of animals you may witness to the local humane society.

The idea of a totally automated society seems pretty inhumane.

What was not predictable to me was the remarkably and exclusively nonhuman or inhumane focus of the discussion.

Better things always take place earlyThe alternative aources of energy will be a boon for our inhumane human civilization.

Several people declined my invitation, deeming the event inhumane.

Most advocates believe that it is inhumane to punish individuals who did not adequately grasp what they were doing.

There is a stigma against free markets, because they are seen as inhumane.

We really need to look up the definition of cruel and inhumane in the dictionary.

It's an archaic and inhumane practice that has no place in a today's society.

Trouble with that culture is that it is backward and inhumane.

Humans don t do this as it is considered aberrant and inhumane.

Europe would have erupted in attacks on these countries, branding them inhumane and fascists etc.

Gosh, the life you are living seems inhumane to me.

The inhumane conduct is, regrettably, all too widespread.

Only recently was the method of lethal injection upheld and firing squads are also widely seen as inhumane.

They have nothing to do with resolving the harm of inhumane caste practices.

It has been a year since torture was outlawed and our interrogation policy continues to be both inhumane and counterproductive.

It also has a reputation for inhumane living and working conditions for employees in its.

The protesters said the culling of geese was inhumane and would do little to protect airplanes from bird strikes.

Most parents found her method inhumane and damaging to children's psychology.

It is not merely inhumane killing that is wrong, but inhumane treatment in life must be equally wrong.

Incarcerating people in overcrowded facilities is inhumane and always expensive:.

Putting harmless citizens behind bars, then taking away certain natural rights is inhumane and is in no way an act of justice.

The fact that you would opt to expose these innocent creatures to an inhumane existence and end is deplorable.

By offering his sophisticated clientele a type of veal that does not require the inhumane crating of male dairy calves.

Lori is innocent of all charges and has been wrongfully imprisoned under inhumane conditions for more than seven years.

Animal rights groups belittled the idea as inhumane and dangerous.

It would improve the quality of the leadership and care in the state's often dangerous and inhumane juvenile facilities.

In short debating the humane or inhumane nature of our method is putting the cart before the horse.

They may kill the animal they remove by drowning or carbon monoxide gasing or other means, which often are needlessly inhumane.

Millions of animals are crowded together in inhumane conditions, causing significant.

It is inhumane to use a feeder as a snack bar for cats, luring songbirds to their doom.

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Word Origin & History

inhumane

1481, from L. inhumanus (see inhuman). Originally a variant spelling and pronunciation of inhuman, it appears to have died out 17c. but been revived c.1822 as a negative form of humane (q.v.).

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"Young people...have more compassion and tenderness toward the elderly than most middle-aged adults. Nothing—not avarice, not pride, not scrupulousness, not impulsiveness—so disillusions a youth about her parents as the seemingly inhumane way they treat her grandparents."

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