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inhuman
/ ɪnˈhjuːmən /
adjective
- Alsoinhumaneˌɪnhjuːˈmeɪn lacking humane feelings, such as sympathy, understanding, etc; cruel; brutal
- not human
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Derived Forms
- ˌinhuˈmanely, adverb
- inˈhumanly, adverb
- inˈhumanness, noun
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Other Words From
- in·human·ly adverb
- in·human·ness noun
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Word History and Origins
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Example Sentences
In a close-to-human face, every inhuman trait becomes magnified.
Last but not least, the Inhumans are a genetically advanced “inhuman race” that was formed via experimentation by the alien Kree.
They, too, bear some responsibility for the scandal represented by these T-shirts mass-produced under inhuman conditions.
His inhuman biceps and sultry hip pumping will ease any pain felt after hearing about his exit from the figure skating scene.
Liberalism, the evolving attempt to fully express the human, was about to face an inhuman threat.
By all the sounded consonants we have—“Inhuman Civil War;” the latter shorter, more significant, and more easily remembered.
For some twelve centuries the Holy Church carried out this inhuman policy.
There was a long stretch of wood country, where the wretch's most inhuman deeds had been located.
Suddenly, some common impulse born of the moment and the scene—of its inhuman ghostliness and grandeur—drew them to each other.
It is evidently religion; it is a zeal which renders inhuman, and which serves to cover the greatest infamy.
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