Meanings
comparative more humanly challenged · superlative most humanly challenged
- euphemistichumorousNonhuman; alien, paranormal, or supernatural.
... And who was it that gave you to our humanly challenged parents?”
2012, E R Byrt, The Alien Within: A Hero for Humanity, Strategic Book Publishing, →ISBN, page 2812 more examples
Robert: It's time we came clean about all our wrongdoings, Johnny. They're monsters now. Johnny: Rgh! Sanguinex: Hold it! We prefer the term "humanly challenged." Sigh, it's hard getting respect as a Dark Blader.
2002, Beyblade, "A Majestic Battle... a Majestic Victory?" (episode 39)When humanity is in doubt, as both values and rights are debatable due to an apparent gross dissimilarity between the idea of acceptable personhood and its stark negation, freaks, monsters, and other humanly challenged beings are seldom ...
2015, Haim Hazan, Against Hybridity: Social Impasses in a Globalizing World, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN
Origin
Modeled after mentally challenged.
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