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from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun the quality of lacking compassion or consideration for others; the quality of being inhumane; inhumanity; -- of people or events.

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  • noun the quality of lacking compassion or consideration for others

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Examples

  • When your own attorneys dont argue the "inhumaneness" of lethal injection until it is a last ditch effort to keep you alive, then obviously they didnt think it was that 'inhumane' at the beginning of the fight. .as was the case for Phillip Workman and Steve Hensley.

    unknown title 2009

  • The argument as to why life imprisonment is better than the death penalty has nothing to do with the humaneness/inhumaneness of either.

    Supermax. Ann Althouse 2006

  • Even beyond those ironies, there is an offensiveness - and an inhumaneness -- to the court's ruling.

    Archive 2006-04-01 Zoe Brain 2006

  • Even beyond those ironies, there is an offensiveness - and an inhumaneness -- to the court's ruling.

    The Law is A Ass - in Illinois, Anyway Zoe Brain 2006

  • Tired of people not taking responsibility for their inhumaneness to their fellow man.

    The Economist: Daily news and views 2011

  • The Associated Press reported on Friday that the drug killings are being ratcheted up in terms of sheer inhumaneness to increase their shock value.

    NY Daily News NINA MANDELL 2011

  • The evil in this country is not presently in the Whitehouse; it is in the churches and radio shows being led by hatefilled preachers and opinionators who suckled on racist bigotry and are finallly having their chance to spew their forked-tongued poison milk of inhumaneness on the masses.

    AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed 2009

  • Its an extremely different process of enacting horror from the one utilized on Jigoku Shoujo, which relies on the pitfalls of humanity instead of the inhumaneness of folkloric beasts.

    Anime Nano! 2009

  • Sanford Schram identifies some of the strands of the Perestroika critique in these terms: "Some focus on the overly abstract nature of much of the research done today, some on the lack of nuance in decontextualized, large-sample empirical studies, others on the inhumaneness of thinking about social relations in causal terms, and still others on the ways in which contemporary social science all too often fails to produce the kind of knowledge that can meaningfully inform social life" Monroe : 103.

    The Perestroika debate in political science Daniel Little 2008

  • Sanford Schram identifies some of the strands of the Perestroika critique in these terms: "Some focus on the overly abstract nature of much of the research done today, some on the lack of nuance in decontextualized, large-sample empirical studies, others on the inhumaneness of thinking about social relations in causal terms, and still others on the ways in which contemporary social science all too often fails to produce the kind of knowledge that can meaningfully inform social life" Monroe : 103.

    Archive 2008-04-01 Daniel Little 2008

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