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Molière's "Le ___"
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misanthrope
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Misanthrope is a French metal band, formed in 1988. The name of the band is taken from Molière 's play Le Misanthrope , reflecting the band's very theatrical style and the influence of the French dramatist on their music and lyrics. The band's genre is ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"one who hates mankind," 1560s, from Greek misanthropos "hating mankind," from misein "to hate" (see miso- ) + anthropos "man" (see anthropo- ). Alternative form misanthropist is attested from 1650s.
Usage examples of misanthrope.
Nevertheless, this noble misanthrope longed to benefit his proteges still further.
The single finest tellurium in existence was built by the New England machinist, astronomer, and misanthrope, Benjamin Dee, in 1816.
This is a curious fact, for as a rule these bargellos are spies, liars, traitors, cheats, and misanthropes, for a man despised hates his despisers.
I had found it upon my sole visita society of misanthropes made up of the most unsociable and unclubable men in town.
Besides, I had no mission, no right, to constitute myself an apostle, and if I had heroically resolved on leaving them as soon as I knew them to be foolish visionaries, I should have shewn myself a misanthrope, the enemy of those worthy men for whom I could procure innocent pleasures, and my own enemy at the same time.
I led the conversation to the subject of his country, and he gave me an amusing description of it, talking of his fief-part of which was within the domains of the sultan-as a place where gaiety was unknown, and where the most determined misanthrope would die of melancholy.
She took comfort from the fact that they were few, those misfits, misanthropes, technophobes, romantics, irrationalists of every kind.
Those quacks and misanthropes who advertise indelible Japan ink should be made to perish along with their wicked discoveries.