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misanthrope
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  • This is not true of all crises, but it is true of sufficiently many to make the most hardened historian cynical and misanthropic.  (source)
    misanthropic = someone who dislikes and distrusts people
  • A misanthrope I can understand--a womanthrope, never!  (source)
    misanthrope = someone who dislikes people
  • But what of that notorious misanthrope of a chef?†  (source)
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  • There was more left to explore, but suddenly it seemed like a waste of time; it was impossible that anyone could still be living here, even the most misanthropic recluse.†  (source)
  • As with a number of his characters, the man of the title is a committed misanthrope, absolutely convinced that everyone else is a sinner.†  (source)
  • And he could never know that Charley's interest in him was purely courteous; if he did, he would be hurt in his misanthropy, for Charley has no interest in cats whatever, even for chasing purposes.†  (source)
  • Those quacks and misanthropes who advertise indelible Japan ink should be made to perish along with their wicked discoveries.†  (source)
    misanthropes = people who dislike people in general
  • A perfect misanthropist's heaven: and Mr. Heathcliff and I are such a suitable pair to divide the desolation between us.†  (source)
  • Living among clowns and misanthropists, she probably cannot appreciate a better class of people when she meets them.†  (source)
  • Alistair was a misanthropic English vampire who counted Carlisle as his closest acquaintance, though he could hardly stand a visit more than once a century.†  (source)
  • The characteristic had surfaced, to a greater or lesser degree, in nearly every horse to descend from his great-grandsire, Hastings, a thousand-pound misanthrope for the ages.†  (source)
  • There had been a period when Hester was less alive to this consideration; or, perhaps, in the misanthropy of her own trouble, she left the minister to bear what she might picture to herself as a more tolerable doom.†  (source)
  • As in the case of many misanthropes, his disdain for people led him into a profession designed to serve them.†  (source)
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