misanthrope
మిసాన్త్రోప్
definition
noun
I've been called in the past, probably with justification, a misanthrope but it isn't so much that I dislike people (well not all of them anyway) but that I have a physical need to be apart from them.
a person who dislikes humankind and avoids human society.
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Scrooge wasn't the mean-spirited 'misanthrope' most of us believe him to be
My suspicion is that the reason for the generally low opinion held of the pessimist is related to his close ties to the critic, the cynic, the 'misanthrope' , the whiner and the curmudgeon.
It's well written and funny, and the author is clearly a 'misanthrope' , which is always a plus in my opinion.
I'd always thought I was a 'misanthrope' , but maybe I'm just an introvert instead.
I've been called in the past, probably with justification, a 'misanthrope' but it isn't so much that I dislike people (well not all of them anyway) but that I have a physical need to be apart from them.
The only way to beat these 'misanthropes' is to stand up and be counted.
He was too busy eating hot dogs, his face distorted by the meat, his dark feral eyes gleaming 'misanthropically' into the field of play.
Another character who is 'misanthropically' withdrawn finds redemption in slow stages, progressing from ordinary decency to true heroism.
With him, we may fear, it was a source of 'misanthropical' bitterness, poisoning all the springs of happiness.
However, the aggressive and 'misanthropic' nature of the imperialist power system, the denial of any democratic conditions, finds its most visible expression in it.
What features were seen were stern and 'misanthropical' .
And yes, he was - but like all 'misanthropes' he was only so because he believed (almost naively) in mankind, and was continually disappointed.
Where do those of us who are already part-time 'misanthropes' go when people seem even worse than usual?
And people like me who say things like this get labelled sour old 'misanthropes' .
It is possible that you are antisocial, 'misanthropic' , or in need of a good shrink.
The world of stand-up is typically portrayed as riddled with self-loathing 'misanthropes' , barely able to contain their disgust with the world, who make a living poking fun at its most visible targets and at one another.
But the immediate need, the life-and-death need, is for the Catholic church to continue to expose and isolate the 'misanthropes' that have been entrenched in their ranks, and to implement massive screening to prevent further incursions.
I think I'm just a 'misanthropist' , and that's why I get angry about TV - if there's more real people on it, there's more for me to hate.
In 1957, Orson Welles finished filming his last American film, a lurid and 'misanthropical' thriller, Touch of Evil.
The administration is thus using the civilian courts to try only the low-level conspirators; the ‘passive supporters,’ the folks who don't quite rise to the level of terrorist - most of whom are just losers and 'misanthropes' .
As a result, the film contains no fresh insights and is a cold and 'misanthropic' work.
I understand why so many intellectuals become 'misanthropes' - it's easier.
In any event, the conclusion of Solaris has an unpleasant, 'misanthropic' quality.
We meet a bisexual poet who sets up a test of beauty between a beautiful young man and a beautiful young woman, a man who wins the love of a 'misanthropist' through the power of art, and the tales of his two labourers.
Like a lot of other bedridden 'misanthropes' , I got into the lifestyle after being stricken by illness and liked it so much I decided not to leave.
The sudden stop is as 'misanthropically' cynical and arbitrary as the track's brutal beginning and will either summon hangman's smiles from the listener or sighs of exasperation.
Since everything had been taken from him from teenager to young adult, Adrian had now become a pessimist, a cynic… Your standard 'misanthropist' .
They will endorse co-workers who are convicts, 'misanthropes' and sociopaths, whatever, all in the name of unity.
Kubrick, of course, is eternally categorised as cold, unemotional, 'misanthropic' , somehow inhuman.
Of course one accusation constantly leveled at animal rights activists (and vehemently denied by same) is that they care more about animals than human beings or are even outright 'misanthropes' .
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