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humane (menschlich) vs cruel

cruel

Definitions

adjective

  1. (of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering

Examples

Avoid cruel and violent people, as they tend to take up cudgels with you on non-issues.

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.

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