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^[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.