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What does inhumane mean?

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Adjective
  1. lacking pity or compassion for misery and suffering; cruel, unkind, not humane.
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The report is critical of the inhumane treatment of children in arbitrary detention and calls into question our commitment to human rights.
Yet they knew that the Massachusett Indians, for example, considered it impious and inhumane to deface the monuments of the dead.
There should be special provision in the international criminal court to protect their quarry from inhumane and unnatural persecution.
Brutal, cruel, inhumane and disturbing violence happens all over the world.
The punitiveness of the criminal code was both inhumane and counter-productive.
Had the consequences not been so tragic and desperately inhumane, we would have been excused for gloating.

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