misanthropist

You’re a jeans salesman by day, a Viking-like warrior with incredible prowess who pummels enemies by night, a misanthropist who can commiserate with me about the worst parts of living, and I believe a sweet and caring boyfriend to whoever you’d have as your lover.

True to current comparisons Liverpool were even managed by a scowling misanthropist in the shape of Graeme Souness.

His tweets have triggered an unexpectedly heated debate during which he’s been belittled as a killjoy, a pedant, and even a misanthropist.

Published in 1847 under the masculine pseudonym Ellis Bell, “Wuthering Heights” struck its first readers as “a perfect misanthropist’s heaven.”

A natural misanthropist, Payne is at his best when dwelling on the craven weaknesses of consumerist society – masculinity, in particular – that sets its material goals higher than its spiritual ones, gleefully taking in the spectacle of people literally wasting themselves away to gain a lifestyle of dream kitchens and country clubs.