inhumane
inhumane
Definition
in·hu·mane (in′hyo̵̅o̅ mān′)
in′·hu·mane′ly adverb
inhumane
Usage Examples
Infinitive complement
- put: They argued the accommodation was too restrictive, and it was cruel and inhumane to put so many animals in a confined space.
Modifies a noun
- treatment: They were there to protest against the inhumane treatment of asylum seekers throughout the Border Regime.
- act: The question of how the recognizably human can be led to commit inhumane acts is in fact the central concern of the novel.
- manner: We have nothing to do with any group that acts in an inhumane manner.
- weapon: Iran, Libya, Syria, and North Korea are also pursuing these illegitimate and inhumane weapons.
- condition: Along with hundreds of others, they were detained in inhumane conditions in two separate police stations.
- method: Often when they are no longer able to work, inhumane methods are used to put them to death.
Modifying Another Word
- totally: Lets show some true humanity 22nd Jul 2005 Andy from Leeds These attacks prove these people to be totally inhumane.
- completely: In the last five years, I have been a carer, chewed up and spat out by a completely inhumane system.
- often: It adds authorities do not enforce existing labor laws and working conditions are often inhumane, with forced labor still a common practice.
- very: She is " incredibly grateful on some levels to America and the UK for ridding the world of a very inhumane man.
- utterly: And we must not lose our sense that this is an utterly inhumane way to treat people.
- only: These weapons are not only inhumane, they are also illegal.
Browse dictionary entries near inhumane
- inhuman
- inhospitality
- inhospitable
- inhomogeneous
- inhibitor
- inhibition
- inhibit
- inhibin
- inhesion
- inheritor
- inhumanity
- inhumanly
- inhume
- inimical
- inimitable
- inimitably
- inion
- iniquitous
- iniquity
- init
