Definitionadj. believing the worst of human nature and motives
Last update: October 17, 2015
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For, as when the red-cheeked, dancing girls, April and May, trip home to the wintry, misanthropic woods; even the barest, ruggedest, most thunder-cloven old oak will at least send forth some few green sprouts, to welcome such glad-hearted visitants; so Ahab did, in the end, a little respond to the playful allurings of that girlish air. [Please select]
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There was an almost misanthropic vein in the autocratic land-owner and iron-master. [Please select]
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It inclines one to hide, to sulk, to shut oneself away and become misanthropic. [Please select]
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Hemans's poetry is smooth and graceful, frequently tinged with a shade of melancholy, but never despairing, cynical, or misanthropic. [Please select]
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The water-plug being left in solitude, its overflowings sullenly congealed, and turned to misanthropic ice. [Please select]
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Now he became morose and misanthropic, and his heart, bereaved of its legitimate objects of affection, henceforth was fixed upon gold, which he began to love with a passionate energy. [Please select]
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