misanthropical

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Of a delicate constitution, apprehensive of physical suffering, and extremely misanthropical, he resigned his professorship in 1842, and came to Valsolda to enjoy the modest fortune his father had left him.

From The Patriot Piccolo Mondo Antico by Fogazzaro, Antonio

So he shut himself up in his chambers; wrote pages for his new book that were moody, misanthropical, and unbelieving; and on the whole was very unhappy.

From The Bertrams by Trollope, Anthony

Those unlucky few words that I had overheard created a great breach between me and my tenants, and, moreover, brought on in the would-be philosopher a fit of misanthropical melancholy.

From A Witch of the Hills, v. 1-2 by Warden, Florence

Poor Sid at this time was inclined to be misanthropical; he looked at all things through a distorting medium, and he had lost his natural lightness of heart.

From Mattie:?A Stray (Vol 2 of 3) by Robinson, Frederick William

The last name was not inappropriate, for a more morose, solitary, and misanthropical man never lived than Henry Dubarry, the builder of that house.

From Cruel As The Grave by Southworth, Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte