INHUMANE • FREE TRANSLATOR.ORG • Definition of Inhumane

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

/ɪnhjumˈeɪn/ Listen

Inhumane

adjective

Lacking and reflecting lack of pity or compassion. "Biological weapons are considered too inhumane to be used"

See images of 'Inhumane'

Etymology of 'Inhumane'

Related search:

inhumaneness

Share |

"Inhumane" Quotes from Famous Books

... Notes.—On May 14, the Department of State at Washington made public the first of three famous notes on the Lusitania case. It solemnly informed the German government that "no warning that an unlawful and inhumane act will be committed can possibly be accepted as an excuse or palliation for that act or as an abatement of the responsibility for its commission." It called upon the German government to disavow the act, make reparation as far ...

— History of the United States • Charles A. Beard and Mary R. Beard

... has also been turning his attention to the Ark, and the inhumane congestion of the creatures that were packed into it. The result should be a very interesting psychological and sociological work, the leading character being HAM'S wife, whom the novelist figures as a protester to her father-in-law against his treatment of all the animals, ...

— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 156, March 19, 1919 • Various

... knowledge, where there are such enormous moral forces available, so much wisdom, so much virtue, so much power, we have not yet succeeded in providing that necessary apparatus of insurance and security, without which our industrial system is not merely incomplete, but actually inhumane. ...

— Liberalism and the Social Problem • Winston Spencer Churchill

... to back up two mad moralities, but it cannot be used to back up a single sane one. The kinship and competition of all living creatures can be used as a reason for being insanely cruel or insanely sentimental; but not for a healthy love of animals. On the evolutionary basis you may be inhumane, or you may be absurdly humane; but you cannot be human. That you and a tiger are one may be a reason for being tender to a tiger. Or it may be a reason for being as cruel as the tiger. It is one way to train the tiger to imitate you, it is a shorter way to ...

— Orthodoxy • G. K. Chesterton

... turtles, and who you allow to suffer for want of sufficient food; little do you think that there are among them those who have sufficient learning to lay the whole story of their sufferings before the American and English people; little do you imagine that the inhumane treatment of men every way as good as yourselves, is now recording, and will in due time ...

— A Journal of a Young Man of Massachusetts, 2nd ed. • Benjamin Waterhouse

Words linked to "Inhumane" : barbarous, cold-blooded, pitiless, cruel, brutal, cannibalic, painful, unkind, brute, inhuman, roughshod, brutish, savage, bestial, cold, humane, beastly, insensate, vicious, fell, humaneness