as in cynic
a person who distrusts other people and believes that everything is done for selfish reasons
a former misanthrope who now professes a newly discovered love of mankind
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Recent Examples of misanthrope
Edward is a misanthrope and a scold (The Imitation Game).
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Graham Hillard, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 21 Feb. 2025
The late Swiss writer Markus Werner’s bleakly funny The Frog in the Throat, first published forty years ago, is a parallel portrait of father-and-son misanthropes and seems to speak directly to our moment.
—James Gleick, The New York Review of Books, 7 Feb. 2025
Misery loves company; a misanthrope, however, does not.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 9 Jan. 2025
Their characters, a panoply of misanthropes and weirdos, are often trapped in the prisons of their past.
—Holden Seidlitz, The New Yorker, 10 June 2024
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Graham Hillard, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 21 Feb. 2025
The late Swiss writer Markus Werner’s bleakly funny The Frog in the Throat, first published forty years ago, is a parallel portrait of father-and-son misanthropes and seems to speak directly to our moment.
—James Gleick, The New York Review of Books, 7 Feb. 2025
Misery loves company; a misanthrope, however, does not.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 9 Jan. 2025
Their characters, a panoply of misanthropes and weirdos, are often trapped in the prisons of their past.
—Holden Seidlitz, The New Yorker, 10 June 2024
See All Example Sentences for misanthrope
Recent Examples of Synonyms for misanthrope
cynic
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But crypto companies have long maintained that digital currencies are a new, innovative financial product that needs its own set of rules — rules that critics and cynics say the crypto sector would like to shape to its advantage by spending heavily in elections.—
Rafael Nam,
NPR,
19 July 2025
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Gunn and Safran and all of Warner Bros can rest easy after the cynics’ snarking over the first trailer back in December.—
Anthony D'Alessandro,
Deadline,
10 July 2025
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“Misanthrope.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/misanthrope. Accessed 21 Aug. 2025.
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