Word Finder - inhuman

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Of or pertaining to inhumanity and the indifferently cruel, sadistic or barbaric behavior it brings.

His scream was inhuman even to his ears.

She inched away at the inhuman tone.

She tried to turn away, but the smell filled her senses with inhuman hunger and desperation.

She had two days to steal a necklace from an inhuman creature capable of tracking her down after she did.

Both inched toward her, the inhuman growling filling the hall.

The causes for an absolute divorce are adultery, impotency, sentence to imprisonment for a term of three years or more, wilful desertion for one year, cruel or inhuman treatment, habitual drunkenness and voluntary separation for five years.

She'd never in her life wanted a tattoo, but to have some blood-sucking, shape changing, ill-tempered, inhuman beast's name on her neck was infuriating!

Skilfully taking advantage of the jealousies of Poland and Lithuania, as they were accentuated by the personal antagonism of Jagiello and Witowt (q.v.), with the latter of whom the Knights more than once contracted profitable alliances, they even contrived (Treaty of Salin, 1378) to extend their territory by getting possession of the province of Samogitia, the original seat of the Lithuanians, where paganism still persisted, and where their inhuman cruelties finally excited the horror and indignation of Christian Europe.

At length the inhuman miscreant Mahmtid died, at the early age of twenty-seven, on the 22nd of April 1725.

His growl was inhuman, a warning she didn't heed.

At the same time, in judging the apparently inhuman way in which the Sudras were treated in the caste rules, one has always to bear in mind the fact that the belief in metempsychosis was already universal at the time, and seemed to afford the only rational explanation of the apparent injustice involved in the unequal distribution of the good things in this world; and that, if the Sudra was strictly excluded from the religious rites and beliefs of the superior classes, this exclusion in no way involved the question of his ultimate emancipation and his union with the Infinite Spirit, which were as certain in his case as in that of any other sentient being.

Then the army under Alva's son, Don Frederick of Toledo, marched northwards, and the sack of Zutphen and the inhuman butchery of Naarden are among the blackest records of history.

The grounds for an absolute divorce in Minnesota are adultery, impotence, cruel and inhuman treatment, sentence to state prison or state reformatory subsequent to the marriage, desertion or habitual drunkenness for one year next preceding the application for a divorce.

But he seems to have prided himself on a certain humanity, or even generosity of temper, which led him to avoid putting his enemies to death, though he did not scruple to condemn Renaud of Dammartin to the most inhuman of imprisonments.

The causes for divorce are impotency, bigamy, adultery, desertion for two years, conviction of an infamous crime, the attempt of one of the parties to take the life of the other, the husband's cruel and inhuman treatment of his wife, refusal of the wife to remove with her husband into the state without a reasonable cause, pregnancy of the wife at the time of the marriage by another person without the knowledge of the husband, and habitual drunkenness, provided the habit has been contracted subsequent to the marriage.

His attraction was inhuman.

No human's eyes glowed red, and their inhuman growls as she passed resembled those of animals.

Memon tossed his head back, roaring in the demon's inhuman voice,

Tall and lanky, Jonny didn't look like some sort of inhuman creature.

Jonny's eyes were burning with something inhuman.

The in-between place where Jake's drugs put her were filled with horrifying visions of Cody and other strangers dying while Dr. Czerno screamed at her to return to him in his inhuman computer voice.

Jenn snorted, wondering how she explained there was only one vamp in an entire organization of inhuman blood suckers that gave her the creeps.

Amplified by magic, Yully's fighting skill was inhuman.

Damian growled in a voice that bordered on inhuman.

A petition for a divorce may be presented after a residence within the state of one year immediately preceding, and a decree may be granted against the defendant if judged guilty of adultery, desertion for two years without reasonable cause, habitual drunkenness, such inhuman treatment as to endanger the life of the plaintiff, or if convicted of felony after marriage.

This feeling explains his detestation of foreign manners and superstitions, his loathing not only of inhuman crimes and cruelties but even of the lesser derelictions from selfrespect, his scorn of luxury and of art as ministering to luxury, his mockery of the poetry and of the stale and dilettante culture of his time, and perhaps, too, his indifference to the schools of philosophy and his readiness to identify all the professors of stoicism with the reserved and close-cropped puritans, who concealed the worst vices under an outward appearance of austerity.

Inhuman as he could be in his wrath, in principle he was as much a humanist as any of his most enlightened contemporaries.

Czerno roared in an inhuman voice.

We are carrying out an often inhuman battle where the best could succumb.

And he fell back into that artificial realm of imaginary greatness, and again--as a horse walking a treadmill thinks it is doing something for itself--he submissively fulfilled the cruel, sad, gloomy, and inhuman role predestined for him.

Memon snapped into action, moving across the chamber with inhuman speed.

He took his entire body in and thought, I am a perfect specimen of man, yet inhuman.

The inhuman monotony of her tone made him realize she was the threat.

We all deplore the inhuman acts in Yugoslavia that preceded NATO action.

Each of them is an inhuman, non-social form of something human and communal, a form of human life which denies humanity.

Thus Hetty is closer to a Medea than to a repentant Magdalen and her crime makes her almost inhuman.

To think that man can be so inhuman is beyond my understanding.

An increasingly inhuman load is being dumped on the shoulders of the workers.

Of course, it does not mean that we become inhuman.

On the rooftop stood his brother along with his inhuman minions goading Dante into a confrontation.

There was an inhuman silence in the room, like that sea of inhuman silence round the dock of the condemned murderer.

Slayer is a well-paced novel set in the dark vampire underworld where monsters with inhuman strength battle for supremacy.

Need was thick in her body, an inhuman craving she knew now how to satisfy.

Losing the battle with his lust, he let out an inhuman growl and bit into her neck.

The angel moved with inhuman speed as he sprinted and dived through the portal ahead of Rhyn, disappearing.

His voice was inhuman.

From these sources come almost all the more inhuman, bestial and discreditable myths of the gods.

For the big yellow mass of quivering bleary cross eyed blubber bulged from the crab pot in a manner totally inhuman.

A wife may at any time sue for a limited divorce from her husband on the ground of cruel and inhuman treatment, of such conduct as to render life with him unsafe and improper, or of abandonment and refusal or neglect to provide for her, if both parties are inhabitants of the state or their marriage took place in the state.

No one knows for sure, but after the witch's accurate 1828 predictions, some speculate that the entity was of inhuman origin.