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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
subhuman
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ He treats women as subhuman creatures, as things.
▪ The orphaned children were living in subhuman conditions.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ There were unknown sounds of subhuman things proceeding relentlessly forward, stopping, retrenching, to proceed onward again.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
subhuman

1790, from sub- + human. The noun is first recorded 1957.

Wiktionary
subhuman

a. Less than human; lacking characteristics of a human. n. Anything which is less than human.

WordNet
subhuman
  1. adj. less than human or not worthy of a human being; "treated natives as subhuman"; "a subhuman spectacle"; "the subhuman primates" [ant: superhuman]

  2. unfit for human beings; "subhuman conditions of life"

Wikipedia
SubHuman

SubHuman is the fourth EP and sixth studio release by Recoil. Alan Wilder stated in a YouTube greeting that there would be a new album coming in spring or early summer 2007. On 23 April 2007, he released information regarding the album via MySpace and his official website, Shunt. subHuman was released on 9 July 2007 in Europe (14 August 2007 in the US). It has been released on various formats including standard CD, gatefold vinyl and a special CD/DVD edition which includes stereo, 5.1 surround and exclusive "ambient" mixes. The DVD included all the music videos made at the time of release.

Working with Wilder on this album is New Orleans native bluesman Joe Richardson, who contributes vocals, guitar, and harmonica. Also working on subHuman is his wife and assistant, Hepzibah Sessa, and Paul Kendall, who worked on 2000's Liquid and mixes from 1997's Unsound Methods. Also contributing is English singer Carla Trevaskis, who has worked with Fred de Faye ( Eurythmics), Cliff Hewitt ( Apollo 440) and Dave McDonald ( Portishead).

The track "99 to Life" refers to the maximum jail sentence handed out, short of the death penalty. This is based on a real story according to Richardson in an interview with the industrial music magazine Side-Line.

Subhuman (Garbage song)

"Subhuman" is a 1995 song written, recorded and produced by alternative rock band Garbage, and was originally released as an international b-side on " Vow", Garbage's debut single. That song had earlier been pressed as a limited edition 7" vinyl in the United Kingdom for the purposes of launching the band; when it came to re-releasing "Vow", Mushroom Records felt that "Subhuman" was strong enough to be issued as an A-side to follow-up "Vow". A last-minute decision was made to switch the songs. "Vow" was relegated to bonus track on the CD single.

"Subhuman" was released as the band's second single exclusively in the United Kingdom, and it gave Garbage their first chart appearance, peaking at #50 on the UK Singles Chart. The single was promoted by a press junket organised by the record label on a boat sailing down London's River Thames, and attracted media attention for the distinctive rubber packaging of the vinyl format.

"Subhuman" was also used by the label as an opportunity to massively raise general awareness of Garbage and as an advertising campaign to brand the "G" logo by promoting the single release with plain white flyers, stickers, carrier bags, t-shirts and subway posters emblazoned with the band's "G" logo. "Subhuman" was never intended to be an album cut, and was not included on the standard editions of the band's debut album, Garbage which was released later that year. The single was excluded from the 2007 greatest hits album Absolute Garbage.

Subhuman (Italian band)

Subhuman are an Italian thrash/ death metal band from Pisa, Tuscany, Italy.

Subhuman (film)

Subhuman, also known as Shelf Life, is a 2004 Canadian low-budget film.

The movie starts with featuring one man tracking a pair of seductive girls to a murky back alley before decapitating and immolating one of them before being hit by a car. Following another man's, called Martin (William MacDonald), strange urging, Ben (Bryce McLaughlin) and his girlfriend Julie (Courtney Kramer) choose to take him back to their apartment in order for him to spend the night there recovering, instead of to the nearest hospital. A young couple is exposed to Martin, who believes that people are being harvested by vampires. Martin is a strange homeless, alcoholic, drug addict that nobody takes serious because he escaped form a mental asylum. Unless Martin can convince other humans that they are being taken over by parasites all may be lost.

Usage examples of "subhuman".

If there was a spark of truth in the Hitlerian credo about the existence of superior and inferior races, we met the real subhumans in Indochina.

I regarded the Viet Minh as the real prototypes of the Hitlerian subhumans.

In Alientown, the wretched subhumans are too drunk or drugged, or too deep within their particular hustle upon whatever slumming purebloods might be spending the night.

He found most small children subhuman, apelike, and dangerously unpredictable.

Both hold their consciousness on a subhuman level and method of functioning: Attila’s brain is a jumble of concretes unintegrated by abstractions.

The Witch Doctors controlled every aspect of human life and thought, while the feudal Attilas looted one another’s domains, collected material tributes from serfs—who worked, lived and starved in subhuman conditions—and maintained the Witch Doctors’ monopoly on spiritual law and order, by the power to burn heretics at the stake.

Not everyone (by definition) is as thoroughly, as exemplarily subhuman as Captain Necropolis.

One blow would be enough to disable him, allowing Kennesaw to concentrate on destroying the thick-set subhuman.

Management decided that Samoans were too lazy and undependable to use as a work force, so they pulled the strings to permit the importation of fishermen from Japan, a great horde of squat, dim little subhuman robots who are managing to kill all the porpoise in the Pacific along with their damned tuna fish.