misanthrope

Example Sentences

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America’s favorite misanthrope strikes again: “Curb Your Enthusiasm” star Larry David has asked HBO to pull his documentary a day before it was set to premiere.

From Los Angeles Times

Miranker called him “brilliant and so forth,” but also “an unlikable, misogynist misanthrope” with one friend in all the world.

From New York Times

A suffocating wallow from one of Mexico’s great misanthropes.

From Los Angeles Times

It’s to Doerr’s credit that he quickly manages to humanize Seymour, a lonely young misfit who has become a radical misanthrope after developers encroached on the wilderness he loves.

From New York Times

My favorite early-20th-century humor writer was Stephen Leacock, a joyful misanthrope who found much to lampoon in human behavior, particularly the overheated prose in Victorian drama.

From Washington Post