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17 total sentences available.
The Germans have an inhuman way of cutting up their verbs. Now a verb has a hard time enough of it in this world when it's all together. It's downright inhuman to split it up. But that's just what those Germans do. They take part of a verb and put it down here, like a stake, and they take the other part of it and put it away over yonder like another stake, and between these two limits they just shovel in German.
Source: tatoeba (552745)
No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.
Source: tatoeba (554648)
An interesting record is still preserved of the inhuman cruelties which were inflicted on this admirable young woman in the secret of the prison house where no eye pitied her and where no friendly hand composed her aching limbs.
Source: tatoeba (909143)
Confucius said: "To see the dead person to his grave with the thought that he is unmistakably dead is inhuman and not something one should do. To see the dead person to his grave with the thought that he is still alive is unwise and also not something one should do."
Source: tatoeba (3295410)
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Closest matches include animal, anthropophagous, atrocious, barbarian, barbaric.
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