Difference between Cruel and Inhumane

CRUEL vs INHUMANE: NOUN

Lacking or showing kindness or compassion or mercy
Used of circumstances (especially weather) that cause suffering
(of persons or their actions) able or disposed to inflict pain or suffering
Causing or characterized by severe pain, suffering, or distress.
Disposed to give pain to others; willing or pleased to hurt, torment, or afflict; destitute of sympathetic kindness and pity; savage; inhuman; hard-hearted; merciless.
Causing, or fitted to cause, pain, grief, or misery.
Attended with cruetly; painful; harsh.
Not nice; mean; heartless.
Cool; awesome; neat.
(of weapons or instruments) causing suffering and pain

Very; extremely.
Disposed to inflict suffering, physical or mental; indifferent to or taking pleasure in the pain or distress of any sentient being; willing or pleased to torment, vex, or afflict; destitute of pity, compassion, or kindness; hard-hearted; pitiless.
Proceeding from or exhibiting indifference to or pleasure in the suffering of others; causing pain, grief, or distress; performed or exerted in tormenting, vexing, or afflicting: as, a cruel act; a cruel disposition; the cruel treatment of animals.
Synonyms Barbarous, savage, ferocious, brutal, merciless, unmerciful, pitiless, unfeeling, fell, ruthless, truculent, bloodthirsty, inexorable, unrelenting.

Inhuman, Callous, Barbaric, Fell, Roughshod, Rigorous, Hard, Barbarous, Unkind, Harsh, Vicious, Savage, Heartless, Brutal, Inhumane

Roughshod, Brute, Cold, Brutish, Insensate, Unkind, Pitiless, Beastly, Vicious, Savage, Bestial, Brutal, Barbarous, Cruel, Inhuman

Inhuman, Callous, Barbaric, Fell, Roughshod, Rigorous, Hard, Barbarous, Unkind, Harsh, Vicious, Savage, Heartless, Brutal, Inhumane

Roughshod, Brute, Cold, Brutish, Insensate, Unkind, Pitiless, Beastly, Vicious, Savage, Bestial, Brutal, Barbarous, Cruel, Inhuman

The Eighth Amendment prohibits cruel and unusual punishments, and torture would surely meet the standard of cruel and unusual.
The world is cruel, and the only morality in a cruel world is chance.
This extreme level of cruel treatment of a human being, however despicably such person might have treated another human being, is still inherently cruel.
Every cruel child is on the hunt for them; every cruel ride is engineered for their destruction.
Nothing in this section shall be construed to impose a duty to investigate observed or reasonably suspected animal abandonment, cruel neglect, or cruel mistreatment.
The only thing that makes me feel better is knowing ur in a better place and away from this cruel, cruel world!
It does not please my lord that anyone should mistreat me, you cruel, cruel people.
Cruel and Unusual Punishment, or Just Plain Cruel?
PERFECT run, but fate was a cruel, cruel mistress.
Oh, what a cruel, cruel woman Barbara Hambly was.

This includes wilful killing, inhumane treament and torture.
He found the conditions of solitary confinement inhumane.
Human rights groups condemn the practice as inhumane.
This too, is a dialysis patients inhumane reality.
Framers intended to proscribe inhumane methods of punishment.
Inhumane, Ineffective, and Wasteful, Southern Poverty Law Center.
The colonial treatments were harsh, cruel and inhumane.
China is the most ignorant barbaric inhumane country.
Most cat experts consider declawing inhumane and painful.
Serb detainees to inhumane living conditions constituting inhumane acts and cruel treatment while he was warden of the KP Dom.