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  • noun Plural form of misanthropy.

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Examples

  • He says he knows 'he could not bear that sort of man, who has such pride and misanthropies about trifles, raising a great theory of morals upon an amour blessé.'

    Maria Edgeworth 1905

  • Timon of Athens together with Apemantus clubbed their misanthropies, joint and several, there would hardly have arisen an impetus strong enough to carry an enemy all the way from the Danube to the Ilyssus; yet so far, at least, every European enemy of Thebes and Athens had to march.

    The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 2 Thomas De Quincey 1822

  • The only difference between Ivy's and Ra's al Ghul's respective misanthropies is writers use hers to suggest she's a lipstick lesbian.

    Cracked: All Posts BrendanMcGinley 2010

  • The only difference between Ivy's and Ra's al Ghul's respective misanthropies is writers use hers to suggest she's a lipstick lesbian.

    Cracked: All Posts BrendanMcGinley 2010

  • The scales fall from his eyes as he looks back in horror at the crazy illusions, the intellectual and moral decadence, the false postures of self-righteousness, the self-defeating passions, and the secret misanthropies he labored under when he was a modernist.

    RenewAmerica 2009

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