How to Use misanthrope in a Sentence

misanthrope

noun

• From the far side of the door, Frank seemed like a misanthrope who maybe didn’t like his brother very much.
  — Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 30 Dec. 2021
• In the book, Hazel’s father, Herb, is a misanthrope covered in wispy white hair.
  — Kate Knibbs, Wired, 4 May 2021
• Wilson has been described as a misanthrope, but that’s not quite right.
  — Chris Hewitt, Twin Cities, 23 Mar. 2017
• The author is a bit of a misanthrope, but his misanthropy is central to the text and explains some of its appeal.
  — Christian Alejandro Gonzalez, National Review, 21 Feb. 2021
• Maybe that seems like a hot take from a grouchy, antisocial misanthrope (still not wrong).
  — Clay Skipper, GQ, 1 Feb. 2018
• Tyler remains the lonely misanthrope that arguably changed the face of rap — just a lot wealthier and wiser.
  — Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 30 June 2021
• Eisenberg excels at playing an easy-to-dismiss type: the nebbish, the misanthrope, the loner.
  — Justin Chang, Detroit Free Press, 18 July 2019
• The decision to end the beloved sitcom about a group of New York misanthropes by putting them in jail for being bad Samaritans is now more than 20 years old, but age hasn't helped it.
  — Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 25 May 2023
• The other one is sort of a misanthrope who can barely get along, and has a more messy internal experience.
  — Anne Cohen, refinery29.com, 8 June 2020
• Wilson, a middle-aged misanthrope, is based on a character created by Daniel Clowes in his graphic novel of the same name.
  — Michael O'Sullivan, The Denver Post, 24 Mar. 2017
• Waking up one morning to find his wife, Sif, bald to the scalp, Thor goes straight to that conniving troublemaker, the shape-shifting crafty misanthrope who lives among the gods, and threatens to break every bone in his body.
  — Lidia Yuknavitch, New York Times, 15 May 2017
• Van Name, who had grown up in a family of Yale scholars, was a lifelong bachelor and confirmed misanthrope, preferring the company of trees and birds to that of people.
  — Melissa Groo, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Mar. 2021
• American readers fell in love with this bloated, hapless misanthrope in a green hunting cap, and the bestselling comic novel won a Pulitzer—one of the few times the prize has been awarded posthumously.
  — The Economist, 30 May 2020
• In a vicious about-face, the internet citizens -- who, just days prior, stood sentry between a weeping 11-year-old and five middle-school misanthropes -- turned on him.
  — Eliott C. McLaughlin, CNN, 12 Dec. 2017
• But Ferrell foregoes the lip-smacking villainy of that legendary misanthrope in favor of a traditionally secondary role, the Ghost of Christmas Present.
  — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Nov. 2022
• Much as my inner misanthrope laments the digitization of tan-line and character-building summer camps, Maker Camp turned out to be pretty cool.
  — Nathan Hurst, WIRED, 19 July 2012
• The laugh-out-loud factor, not to mention Dern’s presence, begins to decrease, and Wilson’s ultimate change from a misanthrope to a happy human being doesn’t ring completely true.
  — David Lewis, Orange County Register, 23 Mar. 2017
• Ah, to be young and meandering around the desert, locating hidden oases to skinny dip in, and trespassing in the buildings of a misanthrope’s roadside attraction full of waxwork figures who seem to move of their own accord.
  — Brooke Knisley, Vulture, 8 May 2021
• Within the field of nature writing, Matthiessen works primarily in the tradition of the spiritual pilgrim, while Tesson writes in the tradition of the disgruntled misanthrope.
  — Kathryn Schulz, The New Yorker, 5 July 2021
• Being an introvert, a misanthrope, a cat lady, and a bookworm makes me easily uncomfortable in many friendships.
  — Marianne Garvey, Good Housekeeping, 17 Apr. 2019
• For all its rage and grotesquerie, that book was ultimately a conversion story about a depressive misanthrope who learns to live again, aided by psychopharmaceuticals and a brush with mass tragedy.
  — Jess Bergman, The New Republic, 22 June 2022
• It is perhaps not the healthiest tendency for a man who is already if not a hermit at least a part-time misanthrope.
  — Edmund White, Vanity Fair, September 1996
• Their subjects included British misanthropes, fantasy kings and Russian spies.
  — Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 18 Dec. 2019
• The story of Ebenezer Scrooge's transformation from crabby miser and ornery misanthrope to a generous and fulfilled human has been a Guthrie mainstay for 45 years, introducing and hooking generations of Minnesotans to theater.
  — Rohan Preston Star Tribune, Star Tribune, 17 Dec. 2020
• In addition to her reputation as an incredible, often unsettling writer, Highsmith earned herself the reputation of a grumpy misanthrope.
  — Ella Feldman, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Sep. 2022
• My favorite early-20th-century humor writer was Stephen Leacock, a joyful misanthrope who found much to lampoon in human behavior, particularly the overheated prose in Victorian drama.
  — Washington Post, 23 Sep. 2021
• Many members of the contemporary movie audience, only marginally socialized, would have made a misanthrope of Gandhi; they undermine every argument for intelligent design in the universe.
  — James Morris, Wilson Quarterly, Autumn 2005

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