Crossword clues for inhumane
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
inhumane \in`hu*mane"\ ([i^]n`h[=u]*m[=a]n"), adj. not humane; lacking and reflecting lack of pity, kindness, or compassion; as, humans are innately inhumane; this explains much of the misery and suffering in the world; biological weapons are considered too inhumane to be used. [Narrower terms: barbarous, brutal, cruel, fell, roughshod, savage, vicious; beastly, bestial, brute(prenominal), brutish, cannibalic ; {brutal, cruel; cold, cold-blooded, inhuman, insensate ; {pitiless, unfeeling, unkind ; {painful (vs. painless) ] Also See: {uncivilized. Antonym: humane.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
a. lacking pity or compassion for misery and suffering; cruel, unkind, not humane.
WordNet
adj. lacking and reflecting lack of pity or compassion; "humans are innately inhumane; this explains much of the misery and suffering in the world"; "biological weapons are considered too inhumane to be used" [ant: humane]
Usage examples of "inhumane".
In spite of the fact that the dogs were fantastic in their ability to detect all kinds of objects, the emotional cost to the dogs was severe, the damage bordering on the inhumane despite the worthiness of the cause.
All he conceives to be wrong is that human beings are a little too inhumane, a little too fond of money, and aesthetically not quite sensitive enough.
And although the cruelties and barbarities used against them by the French and Indians might, upon the present opportunity, prompt unto a severe revenge, yet, being desirous to avoid all inhumane and unchristian-like actions, and to prevent shedding of blood as much as may be, "I, the aforesaid William Phips, Knight, do hereby, in the name and in the behalf of their most excellent Majesties, William and Mary, King and Queen of England, Scotland, France, and Ireland, Defenders of the Faith, and by order of their said Majesties' government of the Massachuset-colony in New England, demand a present surrender of your forts and castles, undemolished, and the King's and other stores, unimbezzled, with a seasonable delivery of all captives.
Hart, President Biffing saw a golden opportunity to do something substantial about a terrible, inhumane situation.
I being extreamly troubled at their Inhumane dealings, uttered a hasty Speech (That God would take vengeance on them, and desired that God would deliver us out of the hands of unmerciful men.
Legend had it that a poet-statesman named Chu Yuan had turned himself into an instant folk hero by throwing himself into Lake Dongting in a province now known as Hunan to protest the inhumane policies of the ruling prince.