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unhumanly en · ADV

Etymology

From unhuman + -ly or un- + humanly.

Meanings

1. In an unhuman manner.
   • A grim meaning rose in the vacuous eye of Lovel; Isaacs caressed his diamond pin, smiling in a sickly fashion; McNamara's wandering stare fixed and grew unhumanly bright; Ufert openly dropped his hand on his gun-butt and stood sullenly defiant. 1919, Max Brand, Trailin'!:
   • MacDonald was tall; some trick of the night made him appear almost unhumanly tall as he stood in the centre of that tiny moonlit amphitheatre. 1915, James Oliver Curwood, The Hunted Woman:

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