misanthropical

Example Sentences

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It was a joke—a vile, malicious joke, worthy of the crabbed, misanthropical old man!

From Only One Love, or Who Was the Heir by Garvice, Charles

But there was nothing morbid or misanthropical in his composition; his shyness was rather the result of an intense devotion to his studies.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 105, July 1866 by Various

The last name was not inappropriate, for a more morose, solitary, and misanthropical man never lived than Henry Dubarry, the builder of that house.

From Cruel As The Grave by Southworth, Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte

One day, while sitting in his garret, needle in hand, eyeing lugubriously the rent in his trousers, and thinking over some bitter misanthropical verses which he was then writing, a letter was brought to him.

From Curiosities of Impecuniosity by Somerville, H. G.

Would she not wear misanthropical or weary traces of such a life?

From The Old Helmet, Volume I by Warner, Susan