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 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 Continuously caught off guard by Lena’s seemingly naive openness, the misanthrope and old drunkard unexpectedly captivates her with his remarkable talent for writing. Annika Pham, Variety, 18 May 2024 See All Example Sentences for misanthrope
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  • Similarly to her dad, Abby tries to bring order to her crew of oddballs and cynics, most notably former night court prosecutor Dan Fielding (John Larroquette), a character from the original series.
    Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 9 May 2025
  • Abdellatif Kechiche’s 2013 graphic lesbian love story Blue Is the Warmest Color confounded cynics by winning over a jury headed by, of all people, Steven Spielberg.
    Damon Wise, Deadline, 14 May 2025

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“Misanthrope.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/misanthrope. Accessed 10 Jun. 2025.

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