Unfortunately, the hyphenation for each language uses dictionaries in the browser, and most languages other than English are not supported. This is because someone has to put in the effort to actually create and proofread each dictionary.

It’s just Chrome who is broken, not the others.

Go to https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=47083 and vote that feature request!

Well, the prefix works, so I’m not complaining.

Try dealing with German on a 320 pixel wide (iPhone 5) display.

Upon upgrading to Chrome 55.0.2883.95, this property caused serious issues with tabular data on my site:

tabular data overlapping into neighboring columns,
arbitrary breaks,
and the failure for the browser to adjust the size of the column to the widest/biggest cell.

The more I think about it, the more I just don’t see much use for this property at all…

In my opinion hyphenation is a long way far from being practical. The best approach is to justify text and pray for the best. On tables I use ­ to hyphenate long words, otherwise on tablets and smartphones the result is a disaster. In short, unless all browser gurus agree to make standard rules all this is just a waste of time and a lot of wasted effort by idiots, like us, trying to make perfect web pages.
Yes, yes, I know they are the idiots not us.

   ...
    word-break: break-all;

     // Non standard for webkit
     word-break: break-word;
    ...

and using

     -ms-word-break: break-all;
     word-break: break-all;

will simply force a break at random position in a word to go to a new line, avoiding hyphenation when supported

Clarification: text-overflow: ellipsis; is intended as a fallback if the last word doesn’t fit. Obviously it won’t help upstream in the block.

.avoid-bad-hyphens {
  word-break: keep-all;
  overflow-wrap: normal;
  word-wrap: normal;
  -webkit-hyphens: manual;
  -moz-hyphens: manual;
  -ms-hyphens: manual;
  hyphens: manual;
  text-overflow: ellipsis;
}

NB: I’m using “manual” values because this most-often comes up in titles that use larger fonts. Giving editors the opportunity to insert a soft hyphen seems to make sense. The overflow ellipsis I threw in as a fallback (but it’s not tested). What do you think?

I need to correct myself.
@Micah your solution does not work in MS Edge!

I just tested @Michael’s solution and it works in all browsers (Chrome, Safari, Firefox, Edge, IE9+). Thanks for sharing.