human
adjective
of, relating to, characteristic of, or having the nature of people.
unhumanly
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a word derived from
human.
Example Sentences
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The patient was whisked from my arms and in less than three seconds he was strapped on the table with a mask over his face, preternaturally still, unhumanly still.
From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2013
Of a sudden he seemed to grow in height, to tower unhumanly tall above the cringing wretch he confronted.
From The Purple Heights by Marie Conway Oemler
“Oh, it is all right,” he said; and began encouraging his mule with cries that echoed unhumanly up the mountain walls.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume XXI by Robert Louis Stevenson
By the light of a charcoal fire, clay images were ruddily discernible; before these the enchanters moved unhumanly clad, and doing things which, mercifully perhaps, were veiled from Manuel by the peculiarly perfumed obscurity.
From Figures of Earth by James Branch Cabell
The young man, who was of delicate appearance and unhumanly pale, stretched himself at full length on his back, closed his eyes, moaned feebly, cursed the heat in a stricken whisper.
From The Flirt by Booth Tarkington
