Frank knew he was guilty of arrogance and misanthropy, but he compensated by being kind to strangers and tipping really well at restaurants. From LearnThat.org. [Sherman Alexie]
He is aware that his misanthropy is a problem, so he keeps himself to himself as much as possible. From Wordnik.com. [Talking Philosophy] Reference
I know misanthropy is common, but there’s no reason to just take it all out on smokers. too many steves Says. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » LA Contemplates Further Smoking Restrictions] Reference
This might, on the lips of a cynic, serve for a formula of that kind of misanthropy which is not more unamiable than it is unscientific. From Wordnik.com. [Diderot and the Encyclopædists Volume II.] Reference
Yeah, my misanthropy is showing again. From Wordnik.com. [Don't Hate Them Because They Are Beautiful...] Reference
Nor do I find in them the "misanthropy" which he defines at some length. From Wordnik.com. [A Study of Hawthorne] Reference
Kant has some remarks upon this kind of misanthropy in his Critique of the. From Wordnik.com. [Counsels and Maxims] Reference
Although, from a kind of misanthropy, he wore clothes quite rusty, there was in his whole appearance that which commanded respect. From Wordnik.com. [Mysteries of Paris — Volume 02] Reference
American Review’s critic notes, the realism is accomplished without "misanthropy" or. From Wordnik.com. [Acting 'Natural': Vanity Fair and the UnMasking of Anglo-American Sentiment] Reference
Was it to minister to a diseased and disappointed misanthropy?. From Wordnik.com. [Sermons Preached at Brighton Third Series] Reference
She conveys the misanthropy of Swift without feeling or knowing it. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 57, July, 1862] Reference
"McLean, I am a bride," said his wife, not heeding the late misanthropy. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 38, December, 1860] Reference
Is it modesty, or misanthropy, that drives you from your fellow-creatures? '. From Wordnik.com. [Dwell Deep or Hilda Thorn's Life Story] Reference
It is vain to profess to one's own heart a complaisant dandyism of misanthropy. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
He knows nothing of the ennui of sloth, nor the misanthropy of idle declaimers. From Wordnik.com. [The Right of American Slavery] Reference
Hope is crushed; and after her flittering shade spring up misanthropy and despair. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 284, November 24, 1827] Reference
The sentence defined was the sum of daily shame, sorrow, homesickness and misanthropy. From Wordnik.com. [The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt] Reference
Hollywood will never be comfortable with true misanthropy, preferring to hedge its bets. From Wordnik.com. [A Blast Of Hollywood Bile] Reference
It awoke in him a dark misanthropy which returned English scorn with an unnatural hatred. From Wordnik.com. [English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction] Reference
The problem is the dangerous misanthropy that has now subsumed many sectors of the community. From Wordnik.com. [David Shasha: Collateral Damage: Jewish Fratricide and the Demonizing of Córdoba] Reference
If the show attempted a serious social critique, its pervasive misanthropy might be justified. From Wordnik.com. [A House Is Not A Home] Reference
In short, misanthropy, neurasthenia, and all their attendant ills, are for him unknown ailments. From Wordnik.com. [Poise: How to Attain It] Reference
He found these unbeautiful, and his misanthropy, which had been quiescent of late, rose rampant. From Wordnik.com. [The Nest Builder] Reference
Then, misanthropy and disgust of life assume a phase in which pain is not without a certain charm. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
They are types of the spot in which Horace, in his poetic mood of imaginary misanthropy, wished to end his days. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 105, July 1866] Reference
But Swift, in his denunciation of men under the form of the Yahoos, disclosed the narrowness of his own misanthropy. From Wordnik.com. [A History of English Prose Fiction] Reference
Do not fear that, having given myself up to a fit of misanthropy, I am come hither to blaspheme the true happinesses of life. From Wordnik.com. [The Heavenly Father Lectures on Modern Atheism] Reference
His frat-boy charm degenerates into misanthropy - and still there are times when you wonder if he's actually falling in love. From Wordnik.com. [Swimming With Sharks] Reference
But Hervey represents the time when dissipation had run a long course, and disgust, sanctity, and misanthropy were succeeding. From Wordnik.com. [A History of English Prose Fiction] Reference
A general feeling of disgust prevailed which left deep traces on contemporary literature, and produced a widespread misanthropy. From Wordnik.com. [A History of English Prose Fiction] Reference
A time came when his armor of misanthropy crumbled away; and in the shadowy alcove of Brantome's living room he confessed to her. From Wordnik.com. [Sacrifice] Reference
His countenance, of a jaundiced hue, grew haggard and wrinkled; misanthropy and hatred of the world were plainly legible upon it. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847] Reference
Yet the issue of Avedon's alleged misanthropy does seem off the point, a fundamental misunderstanding of the nature of the Avedon gaze. From Wordnik.com. [Avedon] Reference
Norm MacDonald has been upgraded to "Update" anchor, but is watering down the dark misanthropy that made him such a welcome bit player. From Wordnik.com. [Dear 'Saturday Night Live': It's Over. Please Die] Reference
For a hundred pages, "The Information" is as fantastically, poisonously funny as Amis's old revels in misanthropy, "Money" and "Success.". From Wordnik.com. [The Infamous Martin Amis] Reference
She lived among her fellow-creatures, but not of them, -- and that in a sense far more comfortable than Byronic misanthropy could imagine. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 72, October, 1863] Reference
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