humanly challenged

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English

Etymology

Modeled after mentally challenged.

Adjective

humanly challenged (comparative more humanly challenged, superlative most humanly challenged)

  1. (humorous, euphemistic, of an entity) Nonhuman; alien, paranormal, or supernatural.
    • 2002, Beyblade, "A Majestic Battle... a Majestic Victory?" (episode 39)
      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.
    • 2012, E R Byrt, The Alien Within: A Hero for Humanity, Strategic Book Publishing, →ISBN, page 281:
      ... And who was it that gave you to our humanly challenged parents?”
    • 2015, Haim Hazan, Against Hybridity: Social Impasses in a Globalizing World, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN:
      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 ...