Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a misanthropic manner.
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- adverb In a
misanthropic manner.
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Examples
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"Your Friends and Neighbors" is clearly the work of the same, misanthropically inclined observer.
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On the first occasion it was at my charterers, where he came in misanthropically to get paid for towing out a French barque the day before.
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Mr. Nabokov has been indecently unkind to Mr. Arndt; he has been misanthropically condescending to Russian scholars (whose work he mined for his own); and now he is supercilious toward Mr. Wilson, who said honestly and brightly that Pushkin deserved a better English translation than Mr. Nabokov offered.
Translating Pushkin Reeve, F.D. 1965
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As to Uncle Columbus -- he sat on a sort of island of chairs in one corner, studying a book, and looking on misanthropically at the preparations.
Soap-Bubble Stories For Children Fanny Barry
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Shelley, misanthropically commencing with the turbulence of the chainless sea: a spirit matured to madness by the overawing and supernatural terrors of German romance: as he asserts himself to be, in his lamentation for the author of Endymion, one who
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 396, October 31, 1829 Various
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I will barely subjoin, in this connection, that, whereas Job was left to desire, in the soreness of his heart, that his adversary had written a book, as perchance misanthropically wishing to indite a review thereof, yet was not Satan allowed so far to tempt him as to send Bildad,
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 51, January, 1862 Various
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Here you may observe, from your perch upon the hill, an assemblage of roads actively reticulating and radiating, winding through the valleys, slinking off misanthropically into a tunnel, or gayly parading away elbow-in-elbow with the streams.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 31, October, 1873 Various
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On the first occasion it was at my charterers, where he came in misanthropically to get paid for towing out a French barque the day before.
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Returning to particulars, Mr. Nicholas B. confided to his sister-in-law (my grandmother) in his misanthropically laconic manner that this supper in the woods had been nearly "the death of him."
A Personal Record 1919
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Miss Conroy replied misanthropically that if there were they would be sure to find them.
Rowdy of the Cross L B. M. Bower 1905
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