1. lacking compassion or kindness; cruel and causing unnecessary suffering

Examples

• The prisoners were kept in inhumane conditions.
• Many people consider factory farming to be inhumane.
• The dictator’s inhumane treatment of citizens sparked international outrage.
• Animal rights activists protested the inhumane experiments.
• The judge called the defendant’s actions inhumane and inexcusable.
• Working sixteen hours a day in dangerous conditions is inhumane.