as in cynic
a person who distrusts other people and believes that everything is done for selfish reasons a former misanthrope who now professes a newly discovered love of mankind

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Recent Examples of misanthrope The late Swiss writer Markus Werner’s bleakly funny The Frog in the Throat, first published forty years ago, is a parallel portrait of father-and-son misanthropes and seems to speak directly to our moment. James Gleick, The New York Review of Books, 7 Feb. 2025 Misery loves company; a misanthrope, however, does not. David Fear, Rolling Stone, 9 Jan. 2025 Their characters, a panoply of misanthropes and weirdos, are often trapped in the prisons of their past. Holden Seidlitz, The New Yorker, 10 June 2024 Continuously caught off guard by Lena’s seemingly naive openness, the misanthrope and old drunkard unexpectedly captivates her with his remarkable talent for writing. Annika Pham, Variety, 18 May 2024 See All Example Sentences for misanthrope

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“Misanthrope.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/misanthrope. Accessed 23 Apr. 2025.

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