Definition of "misanthrope" [mis•an•thrope]

• One who hates or mistrusts humankind. (noun)

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• "For his sin of sympathetic disengagement, this particular misanthrope is cut off from social sympathy in death as well as in life."
• "Smith is called a misanthrope, but maybe he's more a cynic and a secret melancholic."
• "The misanthrope was the supreme failure of life because he had not the intelligence to realize, or could not reconcile himself to, the incomplete condition of human nature."