[ UK /sˈʌbhjuːmən/ ]
[ US /ˌsəbˈhjumən/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. less than human or not worthy of a human being
    the subhuman primates
    treated natives as subhuman
    a subhuman spectacle
  2. unfit for human beings
    subhuman conditions of life
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How To Use subhuman In A Sentence

  • It's a pride that comes across most potently in a beautifully staged scene where Stanley listens unseen while his sister-in-law denigrates what she calls his animalistic, subhuman behavior. Fore, right!
  • But is this reason enough to make Bangladeshis live in what can only be described as subhuman conditions? Minivan News : Top Stories
  • Throughout history, whenever any group has been labelled subhuman, serious abuse has followed.
  • In fact, Zedillo's slavish obeisance to the NAFTA treaty and the neoliberal global economy has increased the number of Mexicans who live below the poverty line, some say by as much as 40%; dislocated millions of peasants and forced them into the edges of the cities to live in subhuman conditions while seeking work; made the Army a power in the civilian government roughly equal to where it stood in 1968 when the UNAM massacre took place; choked off needed funding for the systems of free education and health care; increased dramatically the percentage of Mexicans who are illiterate, addicted, and committing crimes; and produced more billionaires than have France, Great Britain, and Spain combined. The Oaxaca Newsletter volume 5, No. 14: August 15, 2000
  • The refugees were living a subhuman existence.
  • Each of the traditions distinguishes between human, as against subhuman life, behavior and animal.
  • Though treated as subhuman, peasants were of course neither deaf, dumb, nor incapable of acting on their perceived interests.
  • Projecting a subhuman image of the opponent in order to legitimize violence and human rights violations is a commonly used psychological tool.
  • I have purposefully hyphenated the word subhuman in this article to add emphasis to the root of the word which is human because that root word is very important! Political Pistachio
  • She had barely finished speaking, when someone -- or something -- began to screech in a subhuman wail. INSIDERS
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