humane
Example Sentences
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Perhaps with this in mind, J.D. adopts a more humane approach when he counsels a frustrated charge.
From Salon
It’s why we’ve become humane at handling events like Ilia Malinin’s rough night in men’s skating, in which a metric ton of exterior and self-imposed pressure seemed to contribute to his public unraveling.
In the late Middle Ages, Christian theologians and jurists began to advance more humane views regarding the treatment of captured enemy combatants.
Today, in a supposedly more humane age, the perfect weapon is one that does minimum damage, sparing the innocent by targeting the guilty with maximum precision and surprise.
When useful idiots play along, the hypocrisy is double: Perpetrators pretend to be humane, and apologists pretend to believe them.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
