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misanthropy

/mɪˈsæn.θɹə.pi/

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What does misanthropy mean?

noun

  1. A negative view or hatred of the human race.

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Though she failed immediately to rouse a lively sense of injustice in the mind of her guard, because it had been sophisticated into misanthropy, she touched her heart.
Mary WollstonecraftMaria; Or, The Wrongs of WomanProject Gutenberg ebook #134
It was no common misanthropy which had shut Captain Nemo and his companions within the Nautilus, but a hatred, either monstrous or sublime, which time could never weaken.
Jules VerneTwenty Thousand Leagues under the SeaProject Gutenberg ebook #164
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There had been a period when Hester was less alive to this consideration; or, perhaps, in the misanthropy of her own trouble, she left the minister to bear what she might picture to herself as a more tolerable doom.
Nathaniel HawthorneThe Scarlet LetterProject Gutenberg ebook #33
Be this as it may, there are many who are sufficiently civilized to consider the home market first; and a dainty dish of strawberries on an October evening, and a wood-fire blazing on the hearth, form a combination that might reconcile misanthropy to the "ills of life."
Edward Payson RoeSuccess with Small FruitsProject Gutenberg ebook #6117
It was an ideal residence: when “Black Michael” desired company, he could dwell in his chateau; if a fit of misanthropy seized him, he had merely to cross the bridge and draw it up after him (it ran on rollers), and nothing short of a regiment and a train of artillery could fetch him out.
Anthony HopeThe prisoner of ZendaProject Gutenberg ebook #95