That hermit was an avowed misanthrope. From LearnThat.org.
Smith is called a misanthrope, but maybe he's more a cynic and a secret melancholic. From Wordnik.com. [The Fall online - latest Fall News] Reference
On the back of her pink backpack was the word "misanthrope" written in white out. From Wordnik.com. [My family puts the FUN in dysfunctional!] Reference
Alcee Hastings sounds like just the kind of misanthrope the Democrats would support. From Wordnik.com. [Sound Politics: Where Do Local Democrats Stand on Alcee Hastings?] Reference
Since you'd rather note the weaker secondary meaning of the word, "misanthrope," I'll take that as an agreement. From Wordnik.com. ["That's what happens when you interrupt the white man!"] Reference
Why was he called a misanthrope?. From Wordnik.com. [Old Junk] Reference
He now looks like a total "misanthrope" (people hater). From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress] Reference
I had to look up "misanthrope" though (someone who hates mankind ...)!. From Wordnik.com. [Army Rumour Service] Reference
A misanthrope is a man-hater. From Wordnik.com. [The Standard Speller; Containing Exercises for Oral Spelling; also, Sentences for Silent Spelling by Writing from Dictation. In Which the Representative Words and the Anomalous Words of the English Language are so Classified as to Indicate Their Pronunciation, and to be Fixed in the Memory by Association.] Reference
A misanthrope in general, I suppose like yourself, sir. From Wordnik.com. [The Beekeeper's Apprentice]
She finally becomes anemic and neurasthenic and a misanthrope. From Wordnik.com. [The Eugenic Marriage, Vol. 3 (of 4) A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies] Reference
The poor misanthrope screams for help and the whole family rushing in. From Wordnik.com. [The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas] Reference
"Yes, of course I do, and why shouldn't I?" returned the misanthrope. From Wordnik.com. [White Ashes] Reference
For our recently anointed misanthrope, nihilism is closer to the mark. From Wordnik.com. [Absolute Friends]
Valentine's emotional generosity frees the misanthrope from his isolation. From Wordnik.com. [Final Chapter: A Triumphant Splash Of 'Red.'] Reference
Maybe in this cycle Obama will pass the "not a crazy old misanthrope" test. From Wordnik.com. [Pelosi: Overturning Will Of Voters "Would Do Great Harm" To Party] Reference
This failure of leadership affirms the ugly America, the misanthrope nation. From Wordnik.com. [Mike Farrell: The Ugly America] Reference
We are in danger here of trying to distinguish a misogynist from a misanthrope. From Wordnik.com. [Tennessee Jew-Baiter Loses Primary In Landslide] Reference
But, I doubt he is any worse a human being that the racist misanthrope Ty Cobb. From Wordnik.com. [Paul Finkelman: Baseball, Steroids, Bonds, and Balco] Reference
It would be only a misanthrope who would assert that he has no interest in his fellows. From Wordnik.com. [Conversation What to Say and How to Say it] Reference
And the misanthrope cracked his whip and adjured his team with cabalistic imprecations. From Wordnik.com. [Judith of the Plains] Reference
I was a misanthrope, and the unhappiest sort of egotist -- the kind that dislikes himself. From Wordnik.com. [A Student in Arms Second Series] Reference
Though I can be a miserable misanthrope on occasion, let the truth be known that I love people. From Wordnik.com. [A Day in the Sun] Reference
There has to be some sort of bright-line rule that separates the misanthrope from the murderer. From Wordnik.com. [Melody Moezzi: Get to the Doctor, Dr. Ahmadinejad!] Reference
This is as full-charged a portrait of human depravity as the gloomiest misanthrope could wish for. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 347, December 20, 1828] Reference
Chamfort, who said that no one who had loved his kind well could fail to be a misanthrope at forty. From Wordnik.com. [Blue Aloes Stories of South Africa] Reference
Colonel Dumont was forced to believe his brother a misanthrope, and no longer strove to soften his character. From Wordnik.com. [Hatchie, the Guardian Slave; or, The Heiress of Bellevue] Reference
Archie Bunker, that easy-chair misanthrope from Norman Lear's "All in the Family," would possibly be that person. From Wordnik.com. [William Shatner's '$#*! My Dad Says' doesn't come close to 'All in the Family'] Reference
To elaborate: Will Arnett can play a self-absorbed misanthrope (not unlike Arrested's Gob) with the best of them. From Wordnik.com. [The New Tuesday in Review: Hope, Glee and the Rest] Reference
Take heed, and wish not misfortune to the misanthrope, for his own ill-conditioned lot is calamity sufficient. From Wordnik.com. [The Persian Literature, Comprising The Shah Nameh, The Rubaiyat, The Divan, and The Gulistan, Volume 2] Reference
Shakespeare's Timon of Athens is a typical misanthrope in his virtuous indignation at the cat-like love of men for comfort. From Wordnik.com. [Friendship] Reference
The man who was at the outset no more than timid, easily becomes transformed first into a misanthrope, then into a monomaniac tortured by. From Wordnik.com. [Poise: How to Attain It] Reference
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