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Meanings of misanthropic in английском
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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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.
Usage of misanthropic in английском
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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.
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Conversation with the poet's daughter was practically monopolized by the misanthropic photographer.
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His atrabiliar temperament rendered his attitude towards humanity rather misanthropic than otherwise.
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A prejudice is a private thing, and even its tolerance is misanthropic.
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The unmarried, the orphaned and the misanthropic were stripped of their uniforms.
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So surely this apparently misanthropic individual would struggle in the US?
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His misanthropic character was the origin of some part of it.
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M. Topinard, however, has grown gloomy and misanthropic; he says little.
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It's satirical and entertaining, even for the misanthropic non-rom-comers among us.
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That hermit-like but not exactly misanthropic sailor was leaning over the gate moodily.
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The long search for his lost daughter had made him misanthropic.
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I am not misanthropic: I have learned to bear my superiority with philosophy.
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