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humane
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  • At the start of the third week, our Blockalteste was removed; he was judged too humane.†  (source)
  • If we don't give the customers a satisfying, human and humane experience, then we have no customers.†  (source)
  • The boy can be contained in more humane ways.†  (source)
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  • They also fought for the abolition of slavery and for a more humane treatment of criminals.†  (source)
  • When you get to your new homes, anyone who wants to work will be treated humanely.†  (source)
  • Inhumane, unimaginably cruel things, and I had started to become numb.  (source)
    Inhumane = cruel
    standard prefix: The prefix "in-" in inhumane means not and reverses the meaning of humane. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.
  • I had met a rabbit who taught me about self-immolation and how to speed up transmigration: one does not have to become worms first but can change directly into a human being— as in our own humaneness we had just changed bowls of vegetable soup into people too.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
  • —Poison," she says, unflinching, "is unbelievably humane.†  (source)
  • Julijonas Urbonas, the man who thought up the Euthanasia Coaster, claims it's engineered to "humanely—with elegance and euphoria—take the life of a human being."†  (source)
  • Political opposition, thereby, is given an inhumane overlay which then justifies the abrogation of all normally applied customs of civilized intercourse.†  (source)
  • But he hoped rumours had not reached as far as the deputy director, otherwise he would obviously soon find a way of making use of it to harm K., he would show neither comradeship nor humaneness.†  (source)
  • Usually it's an older woman of kindly temperament and humane politics.†  (source)
  • If you can manage to put up with me a little more humanely, I'll go on doing what I can for Mister Rufus.†  (source)
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