How to Use misanthropy in a Sentence

misanthropy

noun

• Hank is filled with ennui soaked with a tinge of anger, with a sprinkle of misanthropy on top.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 11 Mar. 2023
• Reading in a public place is not an act of misanthropy, an in-your-face screw you to the people around us.
  — John Warner, chicagotribune.com, 19 Feb. 2022
• And how much of his misanthropy is inward and how much is outward?
  — Dan Snierson, EW.com, 20 Mar. 2023
• But there’s a method to the misanthropy, a gloomy, compelling depth to their vivid roadman tales of poverty and unease.
  — Pitchfork, 28 Sep. 2023
• 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
• Santino, back in my good graces after his role in the trainwreck that was ABC's Mixology, brings a welcome dash of grumpy misanthropy.
  — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 May 2017
• Eliot was a mystic doomsayer whose verse was torn, as if by shrapnel, with fragments of misanthropy and heartbreak.
  — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 25 Apr. 2023
• To me, Jones’s onscreen surliness often comes across as not much more than a kind of generalized misanthropy.
  — Don Aucoin, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Apr. 2023
• Such mind-bending antics aren’t for everyone, and Rick and Morty also has a streak of wild misanthropy that will alienate some viewers.
  — Geek's Guide To The Galaxy, WIRED, 22 July 2017
• But Pie takes those beliefs to their extreme, shouting down opponents in a tangled, profane rush of misanthropy and ire.
  — Chris Stokel-Walker, Newsweek, 16 Jan. 2017
• But Pie takes those beliefs to their extreme, shouting down opponents in a tangled, profane rush of misanthropy and ire.
  — Chris Stokel-Walker, Newsweek, 16 Jan. 2017
• Her fiction, full of misanthropy, madness and murder, tends to be viewed through the lens of her personal torments and, more generally, of the misogyny of the age.
  — Sam Sacks, WSJ, 9 July 2021
• There’s a gleeful misanthropy that runs throughout your music.
  — Andy O'Connor, SPIN, 19 Apr. 2022
• Next, the spirits of Christmas past, present and future make their appearances to reveal how Dolores slid into misanthropy.
  — oregonlive, 2 Dec. 2019
• Perfect for budding ornithologists or the misanthropy-curious, this midsize guano-and-stone property boasts the wildlife of a birdhouse and the night life of a lighthouse.
  — Simon Webster, The New Yorker, 14 May 2021
• Hank retreats into his misanthropy, which comes as no surprise to his happy-go-lucky wife Lily (Mireille Enos), who’s grown accustomed to his pouty energy.
  — Joshua Alston, Variety, 17 Mar. 2023
• Over its long run, the show fell into a pessimism bordering on misanthropy, committed to the ideas that beasts and sadists would thrive in the end times, that trust is a sucker’s bet and that only your own small clan can be counted on — if even them.
  — James Poniewozik, New York Times, 12 Jan. 2023
• For all the metaverse talk of community and connection, my default online mode is a sort of isolated, vague misanthropy.
  — Toby Skinner, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 Sep. 2022
• To the commenters who keep the level of discourse high enough to periodically mitigate my misanthropy, much thanks.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 31 Dec. 2010
• It’s also Östlund’s overstated Kubrickian misanthropy — an effete response to everything that has gone wrong in the world lately.
  — Armond White, National Review, 26 Oct. 2022
• But this was less partisan politics than the strategic use of misanthropy to hide from one’s own self-hatred—or at least that is the overwhelming impression given by Sherman’s book.
  — Stephen Metcalf, The New Yorker, 19 May 2017
• Perhaps the best, most unpleasant variant here is Jostein, whose misanthropy emerges on a bender that tallies, at a rough count, 10 beers, six Jägermeisters, four glasses of wine, two vodka Red Bulls, two gin and tonics and a whiskey.
  — Los Angeles Times, 22 Sep. 2021
• His manner was one of friendly imperiousness and skepticism, with a hint of misanthropy.
  — Roberta Smith, New York Times, 22 Feb. 2021
• But Thornton’s Willie is a stand-in for every mistreated and maladjusted soul who has ever had to feign merriment just to make it through the holidays without oozing misanthropy all over the place.
  — Tim Carman, Washington Post, 18 Dec. 2019
• Etsy One of the marvels of the modern day gift market is the way that its journals, magnets, and coffee mugs swing wildly between smiling beneficence and saucy declarations of misanthropy.
  — Eliza Brooke, Vox, 9 Nov. 2018
• The burst of giggling accompanying the discovery that his cynical daughter has turned her misanthropy into a haiku.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 9 Dec. 2022
• But what’s most obnoxious about this phenomenon is its misanthropy.
  — Christine Manganaro, Slate Magazine, 5 Jan. 2018
• This is the music of advanced-level misanthropy, with the fierce technical skills to craft a lacerating musical landscape to match the stomach-churning aesthetic.
  — John Adamian, courant.com, 6 Dec. 2019
• The representatives of the constitutional state must use all means available against hate, violence and misanthropy.
  — Marcy Oster, sun-sentinel.com, 10 Oct. 2019
• The romantic longing sometimes clashes with casual misanthropy; the all-lowercase disclosures of trauma and malaise are mixed with playful Gossip Girl memes.
  — Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 19 Oct. 2022

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024