[
UK
/sˈʌbhjuːmən/
]
[ US /ˌsəbˈhjumən/ ]
[ US /ˌsəbˈhjumən/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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less than human or not worthy of a human being
the subhuman primates
treated natives as subhuman
a subhuman spectacle -
unfit for human beings
subhuman conditions of life
How To Use subhuman In A Sentence
- treated natives as subhuman
- Carried far enough, the person in power sees those under control as beasts or subhumans.
- They are the victims of appalling brutality, singled out by the Nazis as subhuman and beaten mercilessly.
- I've been in many homes where the cleaning help is treated as subhuman.
- And, those conditions can only be described as subhuman - dangerously filthy, and without the most rudimentary sanitary facilities or basic medical care. William Fisher: Immigration: Emma Lazarus Redux
- Instead of a single factor with chemoattractant activity as found with subhuman primate cells and guinea pig cells, two factors were identified that selectively attracted PMNs but not mononuclear cells.
- Advocates of out-and-out conquest argued that Indians were either subhumans or heathens and were therefore incapable of having dominion over themselves or over property.
- With the aid of this conjunctio oppositorum, one superhuman, the other subhuman, Prospero restores his realm's people to their ‘proper selves’.
- The German people in the 1930s and 1940s were systematically brainwashed on National Socialist racist propaganda that portrayed the Jews as "Untermensch" - a subhuman scourge that was responsible for the woes of Germany and needed to be eradicated. Latest News
- The enemy was regarded as subhuman.