unhumanly

English

Etymology

unhuman +‎ -ly

Adverb

unhumanly (comparative more unhumanly, superlative most unhumanly)

  1. In an unhuman manner.
    • 1915, James Oliver Curwood, The Hunted Woman‎:
      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'!‎:
      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.
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