misanthrope

How To Use misanthrope In A Sentence

• Frederick, a bisexual misanthrope in a childless, political marriage, was a lapsed Calvinist who held all religions in contempt.
• I've been called in the past, probably with justification, a misanthrope but it isn't so much that I dislike people (well not all of them anyway) but that I have a physical need to be apart from them.
• Since you'd rather note the weaker secondary meaning of the word, "misanthrope," I'll take that as an agreement. "That's what happens when you interrupt the white man!"
• What surliest misanthrope would not find this world lovely, were these things done: scoundrels whitewashed; some degree of scavengering upon the gutters; and at a cheap rate, thirdly? Latter-Day Pamphlets
• He plays him as a cuddly grump, a sweet-natured misanthrope, more doleful than angry.
• The misanthrope was the supreme failure of life because he had not the intelligence to realize, or could not reconcile himself to, the incomplete condition of human nature. Rezánov
• Us romantic misanthropes are hard to come by, you know.
• Of course one accusation constantly leveled at animal rights activists (and vehemently denied by same) is that they care more about animals than human beings or are even outright misanthropes.
• Writer Chuck Klosterman weighed in on Grantland.com: "It sounds like what it is: an elderly misanthrope reciting paradoxical aphorisms over a collection of repetitive, adrenalized sludge licks. A Rocky Start to a Metal Marriage
• For some of us - call us introverts if you like, misanthropes if you must - Mass is a precious hour of communion with God amidst relative calm (especially if your parish is fortunate enough to have a cry room).