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Six example sentences with misanthrope, each labelled with its topic.
The narrator lives alone above the harbor, a cheerful misanthrope who greets the postman and no one else.
Literature
A famous misanthrope carried a lamp through the market at noon, claiming he was searching for one honest man.
Philosophy
Therapists distinguish the shy client from the settled misanthrope, who has decided people are not worth the trouble.
Psychology
The film's grumpy misanthrope adopts a stray cat and, over ninety minutes, grudgingly rejoins the neighborhood.
Movies
The painter was a famous misanthrope who worked alone in a shuttered studio and refused every invitation to exhibit.
Art
The lighthouse keeper, a self declared misanthrope, sells tickets to visitors and then declines to chat with any of them.
Travel
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