unhumanly
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From unhuman + -ly or un- + humanly.
Adverb
[edit]unhumanly (comparative more unhumanly, superlative most unhumanly)
- In an unhuman manner.
- 1915, James Oliver Curwood, The Hunted Woman[1]:
- 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.
- 1919, Max Brand, Trailin'![2]:
- 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.