How to Use misanthropic in a Sentence

misanthropic

adjective

• Gary Oldman stars as Jackson Lamb, the bright yet misanthropic leader of the spies.
  — Mckinley Franklin, Variety, 20 Sep. 2023
• The misanthropic affront appears on T-shirts, stickers and hats, the wearers oblivious to the irony.
  — Mare Czinar, The Arizona Republic, 29 Oct. 2022
• This film from the misanthropic Warren Ellis word machine had great buzz in the beginning.
  — Dave Banks, WIRED, 17 July 2009
• Theo James, who played the misanthropic necromancer Hector in Castlevania, will voice the young Vesemir here.
  — Christian Holub, EW.com, 21 July 2021
• Winona Ryder, who played misanthropic goth Lydia Deetz in the original movie, is also reprising her role in the project.
  — Saman Shafiq, USA TODAY, 21 July 2023
• The scrutiny wreaks havoc on the misanthropic Jones, who would rather hide out at her local bar, drinking away past traumas.
  — Los Angeles Times, 18 Nov. 2021
• Even misanthropic loners like Daria deserve a bestie, in this case one who is cynical and artsy.
  — Matthew Gilbert, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Sep. 2019
• And both series are more than a little misanthropic in their views of humanity.
  — Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 17 June 2019
• For the once misanthropic youths who grew up reading the always eldritch Lovecraft, the new title is a side-splitting romp through his oeuvre of oddities.
  — Paul Stephen, ExpressNews.com, 2 Oct. 2019
• Puddle of Mudd was among the throngs of bands that sort of picked up the heavy, moping and misanthropic sensibility of grunge and gave it an everyman attitude.
  — John Adamian, courant.com, 5 July 2017
• An adult woman puts herself up for adoption and forms a bond with the misanthropic patriarch of her adoptive family.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 25 Aug. 2021
• It’s not so much him as the popular idea of Houellebecq, the misanthropic, stereotypical Frenchman.
  — Mike Postalakis, SPIN, 3 Aug. 2022
• The plot’s template has been much-copied over the years: Bill Murray’s misanthropic newsman travels to a quaint town and gets stuck endlessly reliving the second of February, unable to break out of the loop.
  — David Sims, The Atlantic, 20 Mar. 2020
• On the one hand, the absence of people could be interpreted as an unintentional but darkly misanthropic view of the city.
  — Lewis Gordon, Wired, 2 Oct. 2021
• Men is indeed an anxious, even misanthropic film, rapturous in its vision of solitude and quick to remind the viewer of how fragile and fleeting that solitude can be.
  — Taylor Antrim, Vogue, 18 May 2022
• Especially, of course, for any composer with a deep misanthropic streak, like Mark Oliver Everett, aka E, the frontman for the quirk-rocking, lower-case eels.
  — Tom Lanham, SPIN, 27 Jan. 2022
• There are misanthropic doctors and bishops with gambling debts.
  — Dwight Garner, New York Times, 24 Jan. 2022
• The writing is brilliant, bringing to life a narrator with a penetrating gaze and a mordant, misanthropic voice.
  — Scott W. Stern, The New Republic, 11 Feb. 2021
• Leading with the unimprovably prickly Election, Payne’s strongest, most perceptive films are the ones that risk a misanthropic worldview.
  — Guy Lodge, HWD, 30 Aug. 2017
• Trump and some Republican allies sought to shift attention to mental illness and the misanthropic effects of video game culture.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 6 Aug. 2019
• The Death Crystals revealed untold chilling end-of-life scenarios for him, all outcomes from time spent with his misanthropic grandfather.
  — Darren Franich, EW.com, 11 Nov. 2019
• When Bernadette ventures out into the world, wrapped up in scarves and donning large sunglasses, her interactions with people are colored by her misanthropic snark.
  — Maya Phillips, The New Yorker, 22 Aug. 2019
• Her new book caps off her trilogy of collections of briny, splendidly misanthropic riffs on chronic illness and all the mutinies of the body, lust, aging, her two dead parents, her two white stepchildren.
  — New York Times, 2 Dec. 2020
• Clark’s often clueless attempt to straighten things out is meant to be kind of sweet — even selfless, unlike the hellbent obliviousness and misanthropic aspects of Chase’s film persona.
  — Misha Berson, Variety, 27 Sep. 2022
• Other than her mermaid-red hair, there’s little trace of the hokey seductress of yore; this Ivy is a nerdy, misanthropic loner with a dry monotone and a penchant for preaching about injustice—Plant Daria, complete with the green jacket.
  — Inkoo Kang, The New Yorker, 7 Aug. 2023
• Far from promoting social justice, this line of thought is patronizing and misanthropic and could create a racist double standard.
  — Charlie Peters, National Review, 28 Aug. 2019
• Nicholson would win his third Oscar for playing a misanthropic, misogynistic author who forges an unlikely friendship with a waitress and an artist.
  — Ben Flanagan | [e-mail], al, 22 Apr. 2022
• This is rooted in the same antisocial and misanthropic impulse behind camping.
  — Kevin D. Williamson, National Review, 11 Mar. 2020
• Today’s Left might not openly espouse such misanthropic theories, but the insistence that overpopulation will destroy the earth is very much with us.
  — Alexandra Desanctis, National Review, 13 July 2017
• Enlightened, which was canceled after two seasons, is probably the only show ever to be both misanthropic and life-affirming.
  — Tom Gliatto, PEOPLE.com, 23 Dec. 2019

Last Updated: 4 Dec 2024