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marked by kindness — especially a motivation to reduce suffering of others or of animals- The Humane Society is working to eliminate cruelty to animals.
humane = marked by kindness — especially a motivation to reduce suffering of others or of animals
- The chickens are not treated humanely. Their living conditions are inhumane.
- He was a fairly humane man toward slaves and other animals; he was an exceedingly humane man toward the erring of his own race.Mark Twain -- Pudd'n'head Wilson
- they are naturally going to want it produced in the cleanest, most humane and environmentally healthy ways.Michael Pollan -- The Omnivore's Dilemma
- Wouldn't be humane if he did.Truman Capote -- In Cold Blood
- "I suppose you would hardly ask me to call you a humane man," returned the doctor with a sneer, "and so my feelings may surprise you, Master Silver.Robert Louis Stevenson -- Treasure Island
- She took it all humanely.Henry James -- The Portrait of a Lady - Volume 1
- "Because," shouted the cop, "it's going to be very intelligent, and quite interesting and humane!Douglas Adams -- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
- Lincoln's utter lack of personal malice during these years, his humane detachment, his tragic sense of life, have no parallel in political history.Richard Hofstadter -- Abraham Lincoln and the Self-Made Myth
- -Poison," she says, unflinching, "is unbelievably humane.Ally Condie -- Matched
- How silly and childish of me, a humanely minded opponent of war though I was, to have been horrified by those pictures.Hermann Hesse -- Steppenwolf
- But artifice was necessary, he had found, for stemming the cold and inhumane blast of the world's contempt.Thomas Hardy -- Jude the Obscure
- It will be more humane for the draccus and safer for us.Patrick Rothfuss -- The Name of the Wind
- I know I have these unrealistic beliefs and thoughts, that the world can be peaceful, can be healthy, people can be humane.Tracy Kidder -- Strength in What Remains
- Are you likely to be more humane to me than others were yesterday?Alexandre Dumas -- The Three Musketeers
- He regarded this wish for the dog's death as humane, for he could not bear, he told himself, to see anything suffer.Toni Morrison -- The Bluest Eye
- The negative is if it doesn't come off, if the humane society doesn't let me in the cage.Don DeLillo -- White Noise
- "If you can manage to put up with me a little more humanely, I'll go on doing what I can for Mister Rufus."Octavia Butler -- Kindred
- Even when the humanity isn't very humane, or the heart ailment a disease.Thomas C. Foster -- How to Read Literature Like a Professor
- Liberal SS circles felt it would be more humane.Thomas Pynchon -- The Crying of Lot 49
(editor's note: The prefix "in-" in inhumane means not and reverses the meaning of humane. This is the same pattern you see in words like incomplete, independent, and inexpensive.)
humane = marked by kindness
(editor's note: The prefix "in-" in inhumane means not and reverses the meaning of humane. This is the same pattern you see in words like incomplete, independent, and inexpensive.)