misanthropical

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Take down your notification; it is misanthropical; much the same sign that Timon traced with charcoal on the forehead of a skull stuck over his cave.

From The Confidence-Man by Melville, Herman

The churlish and misanthropical Squire became violently enslaved; unfortunately, however, the lady declined his addresses.

From Dorrien of Cranston by Mitford, Bertram

It was a risky experiment, to tear himself away from his customary occupation and society, and wish to pass the rest of his life at the side of a nervous misanthropical wife.

From Felix Lanzberg's Expiation by Schubin, Ossip

And so how shallow and how unfair it is to talk about evangelical Christianity as being gloomy, stern, or misanthropical!

From Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Corinthians, Galatians, and Philippians Chapters I to End. Colossians, Thessalonians, and First Timothy. by Maclaren, Alexander

He had lived at the acm� of fortune and trod upon circumstances all his life, and this we hold to be the true way of becoming misanthropical.

From The Gipsy (Vols I & II) A Tale by James, G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford)