What is "inhuman treatment"

Usage examples of "inhuman treatment".

On the news of his inhuman treatment, the patriarch unsheathed the spiritual sword.

Bounderby for your son, after your unnatural and inhuman treatment of him.

We should have liked to question him with respect to the inhuman treatment we had received at his hands, but this did not concern the mutiny, so we said nothing.

And to this end and to mark my sense of the inhuman treatment meted out to me by the family of the said Philip Boyes I enjoin upon the said Norman Urquhart as my dying wish that he neither give, lend or convey to the said Philip Boyes any part of the income derived from the said property enjoyed by him the said Norman Urquhart during his lifetime nor employ the same to assist the said Philip Boyes in any manner whatsoever.

What you've been doing to me can be classified as cruel and inhuman treatment, and as a citizen I don't have to take it!

Costigan, bitterly resentful of the inhuman treatment accorded the three and fiercely anxious for the success of his plan of escape, held his breath and, grimly alert, watched the amphibians die.

She knew she had no choice in the matter, but was determined to go down fighting, and in a letter to the Council she berated them for the inhuman treatment 'shown to my poor sick priest' and their lack of respect for herself, 'not doubting but you do consider that none of you all would have been contented to be thus used at your inferiors' hands.