How to Use misanthropic in a Sentence

misanthropic

adjective
  • Well, this play could, in fact, be a stiff, empty, misanthropic soap opera in lesser hands.
    — Trish Deitch, Variety, 25 Apr. 2024
  • But Ginsberg, by this point, is also a media brand, a misanthropic purist.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 27 Jan. 2025
  • And both series are more than a little misanthropic in their views of humanity.
    — Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 17 June 2019
  • There are misanthropic doctors and bishops with gambling debts.
    — Dwight Garner, New York Times, 24 Jan. 2022
  • Very quickly the ironic, misanthropic tone is established, as is the chemistry among the cast.
    — Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 12 Nov. 2024
  • Even misanthropic loners like Daria deserve a bestie, in this case one who is cynical and artsy.
    — Matthew Gilbert, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Sep. 2019
  • Its jazzy, deeply misanthropic voice-over about the suckers and idiots of the world feels like a howl of rage from the underside of a prosperous city.
    — Christina Newland, Vulture, 6 June 2024
  • Gary Oldman stars as Jackson Lamb, the bright yet misanthropic leader of the spies.
    — Mckinley Franklin, Variety, 20 Sep. 2023
  • But, then, genuine misanthropic disdain is part of Verhoeven's tool kit.
    — Tom Gliatto, People.com, 7 Mar. 2025
  • In turn, Judaism boils down not to an ongoing conversation of faith and morals but one of tired, misanthropic tropes.
    — Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 1 Oct. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • This film from the misanthropic Warren Ellis word machine had great buzz in the beginning.
    — Dave Banks, WIRED, 17 July 2009
  • The misanthropic affront appears on T-shirts, stickers and hats, the wearers oblivious to the irony.
    — Mare Czinar, The Arizona Republic, 29 Oct. 2022
  • Pansy, as clenched and misanthropic an antithesis to Poppy as anyone could imagine, may well join her in that company.
    — Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 3 Jan. 2025
  • 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
  • The circumstances of her death, just a short time after the Ireland trip, are at the root of reclusive Ohm’s misanthropic nature.
    — David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
  • 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
  • This is rooted in the same antisocial and misanthropic impulse behind camping.
    — Kevin D. Williamson, National Review, 11 Mar. 2020
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Theo James, who played the misanthropic necromancer Hector in Castlevania, will voice the young Vesemir here.
    — Christian Holub, EW.com, 21 July 2021
  • Duchovny stars alongside Logan Marshall-Green in a two-hander about a misanthropic man dying of cancer and his sappy son, who craves love from his dad.
    — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 18 Dec. 2023
  • 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 | [email protected], al, 22 Apr. 2022
  • 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

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