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Meanings of misanthropical in English
Believing the worst of human nature and motives; having a sneering disbelief in e.g. selflessness of others.
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Examples for "cynical"
Examples for "cynical"
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New Zealand's Foreign Minister Murray McCully said it was cynical and disappointing.
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When he discussed the military situation, O'Byrne was both interesting and cynical.
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Twenty years on he is deeply cynical about the Met's new investigation.
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Yet it is true that we don't always need to be cynical.
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Maybe Deckham was right; maybe he was just too cynical for magic.
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There was an almost misanthropic vein in the autocratic land-owner and iron-master.
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The series about a misanthropic Hollywood writer debuted last year in mid-August.
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Her luncheons were indeed sufficient to cheer the most despondent and misanthropic.
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Dylan Thomas's 2014 centenary saw a predictable gush of adjective-drenched, misanthropic verse.
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Unlike in Nolan's Batman films, Tenet's misanthropic villain happens to be self-made.
Usage of misanthropical in English
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Under such circumstances, he had thrown down his pen in misanthropical despair.
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I believe his family troubles destroyed his happiness, and made him somewhat misanthropical.
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But this distinguished era is blotted by no one misanthropical vice.
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Could I be misanthropical when I saw such fidelity, and dignity, and simplicity?
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The very circumstances which make the shallow misanthropical incline the wise to be benevolent.
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Thus, no less magnanimous than Lionel, did this misanthropical man follow his ungracious cousin.
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He becomes vexed and as the result of this, misanthropical feelings soon invade his mind.
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Perhaps you wonder it did not make me misanthropical.
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But Sophie had no time to continue so abstruse a subject with this misanthropical freebooter.
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She made no reply, her misanthropical philosophy prompting none.
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Softness enervates and irritates the temper of the young, and violence renders them mean and misanthropical.
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What features were seen were stern and misanthropical.
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I might become a selfish, cruel, misanthropical person.
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Are you of a misanthropical turn of mind?
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And then they say one is misanthropical.
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In noticing the solitary meal of the Maldivian islander, another reason may be alleged for this misanthropical repast.
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