mankind
/mænˈkaɪnd/ noun B1- The human race in its entirety. · One small step for a man can be a giant leap for mankind.
- Men collectively, as opposed to all women.
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What a stroke was this for poor Jane, who would willingly have gone through the world without believing that so much wickedness existed in the whole race of mankind as was here collected in one individual!
An anomaly which often struck me in the character of my friend Sherlock Holmes was that, although in his methods of thought he was the neatest and most methodical of mankind, and although also he affected a certain quiet primness of dress, he was none the less in his personal habits one of the most untidy men that ever drove a fellow-lodger to distraction.
‘The proper study of mankind is man,’ you know.”
With the unreasonable petulance of mankind I rang the bell and gave a curt intimation that I was ready.
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