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How to use misanthropy in a sentence

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His philosophy is a peculiar and wholly subjective patchwork of frustrated sexual fantasies, zany misanthropy, and 1960s hippy-dippy iconoclasm.
They almost teach us a response to status anxiety that you could almost call intelligent misanthropy.
Even in the depths of my misanthropy, I must admit to being upset by the situations that some people actually have to survive in.
I can also detect in my writing my essential misanthropy rearing its ugly head.
It dooms me to a life of skepticism, indecision, disgust, and often misanthropy.
Indeed, a lot of the performances from the early 1990s give a misleading image of an arrogant American with a hefty streak of misanthropy.
The misanthropy that many of them nonetheless express, verges on the criminal.
A prominent streak of misanthropy and shyness in his nature resulted in his concert career being sporadic.
I laugh sardonically at the news broadcasts for their dreadful misanthropy.
It's a work fuelled by revulsion, by misanthropy in general, not specifically by homophobia.
His vision of America and of life was tough, irreverent, astringent almost to the point of misanthropy.
Misology is like misanthropy in that each arises where there is a great deal of faith but no art or artfulness.
When you're feeling down on your destructive fellow humans, there's nothing like a flagon of sparkling misanthropy to raise the spirits.
Although misandry is sometimes confused with misanthropy, the terms are not interchangeable, since the latter refers to the hatred of humanity.
But lilting Irish brogues and ebullient ribaldry are not enough to temper O'Casey's disgusted misanthropy.
In the novel, Henry's rugged individualism and disdain for society are stylizations of his father's misanthropy.
But the misogyny gives way later in the series to a more general misanthropy.
What would that cynic who used to delight us on TV in the eighties with his elegant misanthropy have made of it all?
The speculations have ranged from Joan Baez in particular to his audience in general, with more than a shmear of misogyny in the former case, misanthropy in the latter.
Do I accept to go out in Paris on a Saturday night out of sheer masochism, or for the sake of reinforcing my misanthropy?
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Examples from Classical Literature
May my ears be cropped if the imperator's melancholy and misanthropy are so intense!
It is vain to profess to one's own heart a complaisant dandyism of misanthropy.
It is sufficient that they were years of misanthropy and misery, almost of infidelity.
It will be said, for instance, that there are different kinds of misanthropy.
He was a misanthrope, and to italicize his misanthropy he had made himself a juggler.
It is a pity I cannot, for I lose a good deal by my misanthropy.
He had the ordinary temperament of genius, and was a compound of misanthropy, sensibility, and enthusiasm.
There are many men in London, you know, who, some from shyness, some from misanthropy, have no wish for the company of their fellows.
Her books are a sovereign remedy for depression and misanthropy.
If such a mental attitude be indulged, misanthropy is the result.
I should cease to suffer from the misanthropy which has invaded me lately.
At this period of my life, ennui was very near turning into misanthropy.
Even his misanthropy is only an inverted form of social solicitude.
Notwithstanding my misanthropy I had to see a few people on account of all these Royalist affairs which I couldn't very well drop, and in truth did not wish to drop.
I found him well educated, with unusual powers of mind, but infected with misanthropy, and subject to perverse moods of alternate enthusiasm and melancholy.
It was no common misanthropy which had shut Captain Nemo and his companions within the Nautilus, but a hatred, either monstrous or sublime, which time could never weaken.
Her character acquired, necessarily, a secret misanthropy, which threw a tinge of bitterness into her conversation, and some severity into her eyes.
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