misanthropical

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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

He had lived at the acm� of fortune and trod upon circumstances all his life, and this we hold to be the true way of becoming misanthropical.

From The Gipsy (Vols I & II) A Tale by James, G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford)

But he was a Bohemian naturally and by habit, the restraints of the court irked him, and with increasing years he was growing misanthropical.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 7 "Cerargyrite" to "Charing Cross" by Various

The dogs, who had no misanthropical tendencies, had made friends with Izzie already, and had grouped themselves about her, and laid their big paws and cold wet noses on her knee.

From The Doctor's Wife by Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth)

We perceive, in the poet's soul, a freshness and a moral vigor, that shine all the more brightly, contrasted with the misanthropical melancholy of the hero of his legend.

From My Recollections of Lord Byron by Jerningham, Hubert E. H. (Hubert Edward Henry), Sir