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Returning was a heart-wrenching proposition—not least since Goggins’s on-screen persona of Rick—the twitchy, depressive boyfriend of the much younger Chelsea played by Aimee Lou Wood—shares a lot of the brooding misanthropy of his former broken self.
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Charlie Campbell / Koh Samui, TIME, 14 Feb. 2025
Instead of offering relief, lucidity sharpens his misanthropy.
—Stephen Kearse, Vulture, 4 Feb. 2025
But there is more, much more, to McKellen’s rendering of Erskine than uproariously unfettered misanthropy.
—Joe Leydon, Variety, 13 Jan. 2025
Interview 'This is Not a Book That is Enthusiastic About Humanity': An Interview with Carrie Jenkins
Anthony Oliveira
Talking to the author of Victoria Sees It about books as mirrors, institutional violence in the academy, and misanthropy.
—Max Ufberg, hazlitt.net, 4 Jan. 2025
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Charlie Campbell / Koh Samui, TIME, 14 Feb. 2025
Instead of offering relief, lucidity sharpens his misanthropy.
—Stephen Kearse, Vulture, 4 Feb. 2025
But there is more, much more, to McKellen’s rendering of Erskine than uproariously unfettered misanthropy.
—Joe Leydon, Variety, 13 Jan. 2025
Interview 'This is Not a Book That is Enthusiastic About Humanity': An Interview with Carrie Jenkins
Anthony Oliveira
Talking to the author of Victoria Sees It about books as mirrors, institutional violence in the academy, and misanthropy.
—Max Ufberg, hazlitt.net, 4 Jan. 2025
See All Example Sentences for misanthropy
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“Misanthropy.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/misanthropy. Accessed 9 Mar. 2025.
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misanthropy
noun
mis·an·thro·py
mis-ˈan(t)-thrə-pē 
: a dislike or hatred of all human beings
misanthropic
adjective
ˌmis-ᵊn-ˈthräp-ik
misanthropically
adverb
-ˈthräp-i-k(ə-)lē
Medical Definition
misanthropy
noun
mis·an·thro·py
mis-ˈan(t)-thrə-pē
plural misanthropies
: a hatred or distrust of humankind
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