Humane and Sensible

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Humane adjective - Having or marked by sympathy and consideration for others.

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Sensible and humane are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Sensible" instead an adjective "Humane".

Nearby Words: humanity, human, humanely, humaneness, humanism

Sensible adjective - Able to be perceived by a sense or by the mind.

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Humane and sensible are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Humane" instead an adjective "Sensible".

Yet she quite casually recalls, in among a list of her sensible and humane reforms such as freeing deserving slaves, that she had her old nurse Batta hanged for being a tale-bearer and bully.

Source: Literature / Till We Have Faces
Good Scars, Evil Scars: Averted by Sergei Smirnov, who despite having a huge facial scar fit for a Bond villain turns out to be one of the most sensible, intelligent and humane characters in the show.

Source: Anime / Mobile Suit Gundam 00
Subverted somewhat in Mobile Suit Gundam 00 by Sergei Smirnov, a Russian lieutenant colonel with a facial scar fit for a Bond villain...who turns out to be one of the most sensible, intelligent, and humane characters in the show.

Source: Good Scars, Evil Scars

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