How to Use misanthropy in a Sentence

misanthropy

noun
  • And how much of his misanthropy is inward and how much is outward?
    — Dan Snierson, EW.com, 20 Mar. 2023
  • 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
  • There’s a gleeful misanthropy that runs throughout your music.
    — Andy O'Connor, SPIN, 19 Apr. 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • Money, and a heaping serving of misanthropy.
    — Frank Landymore, Futurism, 13 May 2026
  • But what’s most obnoxious about this phenomenon is its misanthropy.
    — Christine Manganaro, Slate Magazine, 5 Jan. 2018
  • 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
  • Polanski’s viewpoint is so controlled, there’s no rage in his apparent misanthropy.
    — Armond White, National Review, 14 Feb. 2024
  • 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
  • There have been dark wells of hate online since the Usenet era, but back then, misanthropy was distributed across thousands of different platforms.
    — Steven Johnson, WIRED, 16 Jan. 2018
  • His manner was one of friendly imperiousness and skepticism, with a hint of misanthropy.
    — Roberta Smith, New York Times, 22 Feb. 2021
  • 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
  • And in 2024, as the show airs its final episodes, the misanthropy Curb radiates has never felt more timely.
    — TIME, 2 Feb. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • Eventually, my dad seemed to notice my adolescent misanthropy.
    — Nicolaia Rips, The New Yorker, 21 June 2024
  • His default mode is a kind of prickly joviality, a gregarious misanthropy.
    — Junot Díaz, The New Yorker, 17 Apr. 2018
  • For now, the contrast between Martin and his patients has a productive friction that gives Charles plenty of grouchy misanthropy to work with.
    — Alison Herman, Variety, 4 Jan. 2026
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 author does expose how a movement that is nominally about eschewing wealth in the name of helping humanity devolved into greed and misanthropy.
    — Jeff John Roberts, Fortune Crypto, 6 Oct. 2023
  • 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
  • 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

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