as in brute
having or showing the nature and appetites of a lower animal
years of grinding poverty that had reduced them to a subhuman existence
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Recent Examples of subhuman
By modern standards, the story features a horrific representation of Neanderthals; Wells imagined them as subhuman creatures hellbent on hunting humans that were migrating into their territory.
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Jack Knudson, Discover Magazine, 21 Dec. 2023
The subhuman invaders, as Raspail describes them, wallow in their own feces and delight in trampling over the misguided liberals who thought to welcome and feed them.
—Katherine Stewart, The New Republic, 10 Aug. 2023
Many Black migrants are pushed to the fringes of border cities to wait in subhuman conditions.
—Arelis R. Hernández, Washington Post, 11 Mar. 2023
At the same time, a loop seemed to start playing in my mind, with hundreds of voices from my past telling me that transgender people were subhuman.
—Lara Americo, New York Times, 15 Apr. 2020
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Jack Knudson, Discover Magazine, 21 Dec. 2023
The subhuman invaders, as Raspail describes them, wallow in their own feces and delight in trampling over the misguided liberals who thought to welcome and feed them.
—Katherine Stewart, The New Republic, 10 Aug. 2023
Many Black migrants are pushed to the fringes of border cities to wait in subhuman conditions.
—Arelis R. Hernández, Washington Post, 11 Mar. 2023
At the same time, a loop seemed to start playing in my mind, with hundreds of voices from my past telling me that transgender people were subhuman.
—Lara Americo, New York Times, 15 Apr. 2020
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for subhuman
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But college football has changed to a game of speed and skill rather than a game of brute force.Mike Bianchi, Orlando Sentinel, 14 Dec. 2024
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Her acuity gives equal weight and immediacy to both the intangible reality of human relationships (the social hierarchies among children in a cancer ward, say) and the brute force of physical experience.Molly Fischer, The New Yorker, 4 Dec. 2024
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Yet for many others, the summer of ’65 presented a moment of reckoning: not about choosing acoustic or electric, but about responding to a brutal and unjust U.S. military escalation abroad.Nina Silber / Made by History, TIME, 25 Dec. 2024
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The brutal Assad regime is brought to a sudden end when Syrian rebels seize Damascus following a lightning offensive.The Week UK, theweek, 25 Dec. 2024
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Many feral cats rely on food scraps, garbage, or deliberate feeding by well-meaning individuals, which buffers them from natural selection pressures like starvation.Scott Travers, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2024
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Borisov artfully underplays the progression: He’s taken aback by her feral resistance, amused by her spirit, then really sees her.Michael Ordoña, Los Angeles Times, 26 Nov. 2024
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Eggers certainly loves the guy, and Skarsgård’s ultra-committed performance allows the film to enjoy a contagious pleasure in returning the vampire archetype to its more bestial origins.David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 2 Dec. 2024
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The rape/bestial fetish is framed as a fantasy imagined by a woman, curiously beginning as an assault.Nicholas Bell, SPIN, 31 July 2024
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“Subhuman.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/subhuman. Accessed 30 Dec. 2024.
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