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Meanings of unhuman in English

Divested of human qualities or attributes.

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Usage of unhuman in English
1
Personality appears only in man; the universe is not inhuman, but unhuman.
Time and Change
2
Psychically abraded by the constant contact with the leavings of unhuman minds.
Broken angels
3
I've met a lot of people, human and unhuman, mortal and immortal.
The Alchemyst
4
He tried to tell a human story and chose an unhuman method.
Ashton-Kirk, Investigator
5
She did not open, fearing it was some unhuman thing that knocked.
The Celtic Twilight
6
His conduct exhibited a passionateless expediency which was dreadful because utterly unhuman.
The Eye of Osiris
7
Then she looked back at the serpent, meeting its unhuman golden eyes.
The city in the lake
8
They were monsters, yellow, foul-smelling, unhuman, and he fought as Laocoon fought.
The River's End
9
Ivanhoe, with the understanding eyes, knew bloody well how unhuman it was.
Complete Books of Blood
10
A hollow, unhuman voice rumbled up through the tube in answer:
The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today
11
There was a note of the abnormal, of the unhuman, about the affair.
Tangled Trails: A Western Detective Story
12
And so people grow vague in one's mind and unhuman or only half-human.
A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago
13
Yet Jonas found he could look into his pitiless unhuman eyes.
The city in the lake
14
His conduct exhibited a passionless expediency which was rather dreadful because utterly unhuman.
The Vanishing Man: A Detective Romance
15
Something almost unhuman wearing a human face and finding it didn't quite fit.
The Departure
16
Calmly he replied, Because I am not a rough-shod, unhuman monster, Mr. Cornell.
Highways in Hiding
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