Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In an inhuman manner; with cruelty; barbarously.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb In an inhuman manner; cruelly; barbarously.

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  • adverb In an inhuman manner.

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Examples

  • My parents were a bit like those tennis parents who start drilling their kids on the court when they’re about two, with the idea of creating some kind of inhumanly precocious tennis prodigy.

    Lev Grossman - An interview with author 2010

  • Evil, understood as performing not simply bad acts but "inhumanly" bad acts, seems almost impossible.

    Satan Goes Secular 2010

  • We are called upon to be almost inhumanly visionary.

    Carl Pope: Game Time Carl Pope 2011

  • They were used to build the wealth of white America and the history of how they were inhumanly exploited is precisely what some Americans would like us to forget.

    Janet Langhart Cohen: America's History Janet Langhart Cohen 2011

  • "The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human creature born abnormally, inhumanly sensitive."

    Jason Silva: On Creativity, Marijuana and "a Butterfly Effect in Thought" Jason Silva 2011

  • So, for example, there are people in our world who can run really, really fast; the corresponding Grace would be the ability to run even faster inhumanly fast.

    Kristin Cashore - An interview with author 2010

  • They were used to build the wealth of white America and the history of how they were inhumanly exploited is precisely what some Americans would like us to forget.

    Janet Langhart Cohen: America's History Janet Langhart Cohen 2011

  • With their one taste-organ orifice, they consume books with a sound that, if you're not born there, takes some getting used to -- and they consume so many books so fast, that * ian authors must imbibe inspiration in some way inhumanly possible as they work without rest, coffee or praise -- for on asteroid * there is an inverse of the Earth ratio of fiction writers to readers.

    MIND MELD: Taboo Topics in SF/F Literature 2009

  • They were used to build the wealth of white America and the history of how they were inhumanly exploited is precisely what some Americans would like us to forget.

    Janet Langhart Cohen: America's History Janet Langhart Cohen 2011

  • "She seemed almost inhumanly at ease, natural, relaxed, spontaneous, as if playing a part she was born to play," Betts writes of Obama at the inaugural balls.

    Michelle Obama's "Everyday Icon" style and the other woman behind the clothes The Reliable Source 2011

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