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[ UK /hjuːmˈe‍ɪn/ ]
[ US /hjuˈmeɪn/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. marked or motivated by concern with the alleviation of suffering
  2. showing evidence of moral and intellectual advancement
  3. pertaining to or concerned with the humanities
    a humane education
    humanistic studies

How To Use humane In A Sentence

  • Where are their fiercest critics when humane help is wanted? The Sun
  • Hog waste is a major pollution source, communities surrounding the factories are strangled by a foetid stench and animal rights groups have long complained about the inhumane way pigs are raised and slaughtered.
  • In the twelfth century the canon lawyers devised an elaborate, and comparatively humane, legal framework for poor relief.
  • His domestic policy is unjust, inhumane, fiscally irresponsible, and amazingly uninformed.
  • I NOTICE that apart from the widespread complaint that the German pilotless planes ‘seem so unnatural’ (a bomb dropped by a live airman is quite natural, apparently), some journalists are denouncing them as barbarous, inhumane, and ‘an indiscriminate attack on civilians’. As I Please
  • The trade in exotic birds is barbarous and inhumane.
  • Long before we reach this stage, the quality of life for us would be unacceptable, cruel and inhumane. Times, Sunday Times
  • January, February, and March bring a great cold, and inhumane conditions of food and weather for the girls - long marches to church in the blistering cold wind, swollen and flayed fingers and feet, and chilblains on the hands.
  • It seems we would rather harbour war criminals than shelter innocent human beings from inhumane regimes.
  • Athenians so far forgot their Philosophy, and the nature of humane production, that they descended unto belief, that the original of their Nation was from the Earth, and had no other beginning then the seminality and womb of their great Mother. El Hombre Que Comía Diccionarios
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