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humane
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  • "We feel it is important that the animals here be treated in the most humane manner," Regis said.†  (source)
  • That seemed like the humane thing—verify it before he got their hopes up.†  (source)
  • Louie felt deep relief, believing that at a POW camp, he would be treated under the humane rules of international law, put in contact with the Red Cross, and allowed to contact his family.†  (source)
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  • —Poison," she says, unflinching, "is unbelievably humane.†  (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.
  • He's been described as a compassionate man who makes contributions to the Humane Society.†  (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)
  • Our inhumane neighbors, instead of sympathizing with us tauntingly proclaim the healthfulness of their own cities...—Letter of Ebenezer Hazard, Philadelphia, 1793.†  (source)
    inhumane = cruel to people or animals
  • 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)
  • The humane society could not have been expected to know that turkey vultures vomit when attacked.†  (source)
  • He uses a long knife and must hit exactly the right spot to kill the animal humanely.†  (source)
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