humanely

Adverb

Meaning

in a humane manner

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Examples

Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear. Bertrand Russell

If you are called upon to govern humans, treat them humanely. Mikhail Kalinin

The number of those men who know how to use wholly irresponsible power humanely and generously is small. Everybody knows this, and the slave knows it best of all. Harriet Beecher Stowe

We can't deter people fleeing for their lives. They will come. The choice we have is how well we manage their arrival, and how humanely. Antonio Guterres

These childish evasions are revolting. We must strip off the whitewash and find out what is really beneath it. Extermination must be put on a scientific basis if it is ever to be carried out humanely and apologetically as well as thoroughly. George Bernard Shaw

We need to learn how to capture and kill wild fish humanely - or, if that is not possible, to find less cruel and more sustainable alternatives to eating them. Peter Singer

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