INHUMANE | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary

Meaning of inhumane in English

(Definition of inhumane from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
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Examples of inhumane

inhumane
Reformers denigrated the casual and inhumane mode of legislating in the eighteenth century and estimated that over 200 capital offences had been created.
The spectacle, as typically portrayed, is unspeakably brutal and inhumane.
The right against cruel and inhumane treatment is an obvious example among many.
Nationalism, in short, followed the same twisted logic that was championed by the inhumane adherents of positive liberty.
We agree, although a worldwide epidemic would be a most undesirable and inhumane way to end the population explosion.
These volumes sought to demonstrate the connection between past and present and to make a particular statement about the inhumane horrors of the past - witchcraft, possession crises, and the like.
If she can make good her suggestion that we are actually guilty of monstrous or inhumane proposals, then she must show how what we say is monstrous and inhumane.
Thie first resolution was on the dishonest and inhumane uses of language and the relation of language to public policy.
They are held in such inhumane and degrading conditions that the centre exploded into a true democratic emergency.
Such testing, in so far as it continues, is seen by the public as inessential and inhumane.
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It is absolutely inhuman and inhumane to deny a prisoner the contact and affection of his wife and family.
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They are suffering degrading, inhumane treatment, counter to international law and to the universal declaration of human rights.
I think it is very inhumane that ponies should be doing work in our mines under conditions like those.
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This policy is inhumane and must be overturned.
Some people will say that it is very inhumane to stop dependants coming in—especially as the numbers are trickling off anyway.
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Translations of inhumane

in Chinese (Traditional)
不仁慈的, 不人道的…
in Chinese (Simplified)
不仁慈的, 不人道的…
in Spanish
inhumano, inhumano/ana [masculine-feminine, singular]…
in Portuguese
inhumane, desumano/-na…
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insanlık dışı, insafsız, acımasız…
inhumain/-aine, cruel…
非人道的(ひじんどうてき)な…
krutý…
umenneskelig, grusom…
kejam…
ขาดมนุษยธรรม…
vô nhân đạo…
nieludzki, niehumanitarny…
omänsklig, inhuman…
kejam…
unmenschlich…
umenneskelig, grusom, inhuman…
негуманний…
негуманный, жестокий…
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