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How to use misanthrope in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word misanthrope? Here are some examples.

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He plays him as a cuddly grump, a sweet-natured misanthrope, more doleful than angry.
The misanthrope is a harmless cuss, keeping mainly to herself and bothering no one, asking only that you not bother her.
Why do we mistake him for a hero, rather than seeing him as a revisionist, angsty, egotistical, misanthrope?
And, although this touchy-feely motion picture transforms Redford's character into a human being, he starts out as an unapologetic misanthrope.
I'd always thought I was a misanthrope, but maybe I'm just an introvert instead.
It's well written and funny, and the author is clearly a misanthrope, which is always a plus in my opinion.
I've been called in the past, probably with justification, a misanthrope but it isn't so much that I dislike people but that I have a physical need to be apart from them.
For most of the day he'd be the genial, bonhomous, fruity old wine-slurper you see on television and then at night he'd turn into a raging paranoid misanthrope.
This isn't easy, for Travers is a misanthrope, highly strung and fiercely protective of her books.
Consider both an avid cocktail party hostess with hundreds of acquaintances and a grumpy misanthrope, who may have one or two friends.
One myth is that he was a misanthrope, a grumbling recluse, whose work was as morose as his life.
You have some surface similarities to Richard Morris, the misanthrope at the center of Perforated Heart.
And while you could make the case that Hamlet was a misanthrope, you commit the slothful sin of identifying the author with his creation if you say the same of Shakespeare.
It's yet another unlikely story of a supposed misanthrope who gathers a rag-tag surrogate family around him, starting with a wide-eyed geek in need of a father figure. This central character has been spotted before.
One red-faced misanthrope, Edward Leigh, yesterday told Mr Cameron not to come back from Brussels waving a piece of paper like Neville Chamberlain.
Examples from Classical Literature
And whether there were no means of inducing him to cease to be a misanthrope?
A misanthrope hates all mankind, but is kind to every individual, generally too kind.
He rarely smiled, and when he did it was the smile of the cynic and misanthrope.
He was a misanthrope, and to italicize his misanthropy he had made himself a juggler.
It would be only a misanthrope who would assert that he has no interest in his fellows.
Ibsen was at that time regarded as a misanthrope and as an enemy and envier of Bjrnson.
She finally becomes anemic and neurasthenic and a misanthrope.
But how is it that you alone, Antisthenes, you misanthrope, love nobody?
He found comfort in the fact that Molire's misanthrope was on his side.
Like a plethoric burning martyr, or a self-consuming misanthrope, once ignited, the whale supplies his own fuel and burns by his own body.
He had absolutely nothing to do, almost died of ennui, and became a confirmed misanthrope.
Don't you think, now, that you can spend a fortnight more pleasantly under such circumstances than by playing the misanthrope down at the Tower?
However, I have persuaded him to spend a day or two up here before he transforms himself into a misanthrope.
The misanthrope and the reckless are neither agitated nor agonised.
Possibly my friend, the Faded Misanthrope in corduroys, is station-master.
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