mankind

[ UK /mæŋkˈa‍ɪnd/ ]
[ US /ˈmænˈkaɪnd/ ]
NOUN
  1. all of the living human inhabitants of the earth
    all the world loves a lover
    she always used `humankind' because `mankind' seemed to slight the women
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How To Use mankind In A Sentence

  • She soon became very drunk and forgot about mankind, so they were saved from destruction.
  • She seduces the despondent radical with whispers about the bleakness of mankind.
  • I have seen human bathers acting just like the birds, though from a different cause, bobbing down towards the water, but afraid to dip their heads, and the idea of comicality arose, as it does in most of the ludicrous actions of animals, from their resemblance to those of mankind. The Naturalist in Nicaragua
  • A reaction induced on the laboratory bench may, like yeast in inert dough, leaven the whole of mankind, lightening and lifting it to heights undreamed of by its ancestors. The Contribution of Creative Chemistry to the Humanities
  • She had too little faith in mankind not to know that they were erring.
  • In its seeming ambiguity yet divine reality it remains free of the influence of humankind and our lusts.
  • Thought his pain and shame would be lesser, If on womankind he might his anger wreak, THE CALLIGRAPHER
  • Hence the words man, mankind, humanity have come to be treated as interchangeable synonyms.
  • I also recall the ferocity of the werewolf, and his insatiable hatred for humankind while in that form. Red dust
  • Climate change in the same breath as greed and consumption, sounds like our man (as was) at the IPCC, Houghton, who believed that emissions reductions would save the planet from mankind's 'greed and indifference '. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
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