cruel vs human vs kind
Definitions
adjective
- (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering
Examples
The League Against Cruel Sports issued a statement Wednesday calling on Ottawa to "take steps to end the immense cruelty to animals in events such as calf-roping, which is practised at rodeos including the Calgary Stampede.
For him, cruelty was a legitimate and necessary procedure, almost a profession of faith, and European artists showed him how to excruciate a tame local reality.
Its heroes were beastly revellers or cruel and ferocious plunderers; its heroines unsexed hoidens, playing the ugliest tricks with their lovers, and repaying slights with bloody revenge, -- very dangerous and unsatisfactory companions for any other than the fire - eating Vikings and redhanded, unwashed Berserkers.
Definitions
adjective
- characteristic of humanity
- having human form or attributes as opposed to those of animals or divine beings
- relating to a person
noun
- any living or extinct member of the family Hominidae characterized by superior intelligence, articulate speech, and erect carriage
Examples
People at MSFC have told me over drinks that this study concluded that EELV are human ratable but they were going to do what Griffin wanted.
It is recognised as a crime against humanity under international law.
It is by these special touches that the author infuses the books with the spirit of humanity, without which a fantasy becomes an empty fancy.
