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- noun Plural form of
misanthropist .
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Examples
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If you are sick of Presidents who talk about the failure of schools to disguise the governmental failures to provide economic protection, health protection, jobs protection, and retirement protections for the citizens who have been raped by the corporate thieves and the misanthropists like Gates and Broad and Dell who export our work, then use a sick day;
If-You-Are-Sick Day April 1: Put the Fools In Charge for a Day Jim Horn 2009
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And all of it is happening in DC without anyone knowing which misanthropists are behind this scheme, or which puppet masters they have hired to move Rhee's hand while she does their dirty work--not that she is not relishing her own performance.
Rhee's Secret Consultant Assures DC Council on Future of Secret Donations to Bribe Teachers Jim Horn 2009
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If you are sick of Presidents who talk about the failure of schools to disguise the governmental failures to provide economic protection, health protection, jobs protection, and retirement protections for the citizens who have been raped by the corporate thieves and the misanthropists like Gates and Broad and Dell who export our work, then use a sick day;
Archive 2009-03-01 Jim Horn 2009
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And all of it is happening in DC without anyone knowing which misanthropists are behind this scheme, or which puppet masters they have hired to move Rhee's hand while she does their dirty work--not that she is not relishing her own performance.
Archive 2009-03-01 Jim Horn 2009
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If the skeptics are proved wrong and the enormous increase in efficiency actually happens, then they will be even happier (unless they are total misanthropists).
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If you are citing misanthropists about Hillary, their views are not respectable.
"But that's what makes Obama's association with Wright so significant. He's not from Alabama." Ann Althouse 2008
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Those who purport that the frontrunner will unite people have already demonstrated that the frontrunner will unite no one except perhaps the myopic misanthropists who, most likely, will be in a seething cauldron of woeful, broken promises teeming with scintillating rhetoric.
Obama’s S.E.I.U. Boost in Pennsylvania - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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It is not to over-civilized refinements of society which, according to certain misanthropists, degrade nature and corrupt it, that this taste is due; it is found among the south sea islanders, and the evidence of the first Spaniards attests that it was common among the hordes of American Indians before the discovery of the new world.
Satyricon 2007
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The current US airport experience serves to increase the percentage of curmudgeons and misanthropists daily.
"This isn't the worst thing that will happen to you today." Ann Althouse 2007
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Living among clowns and misanthropists, she probably cannot appreciate a better class of people when she meets them.
Wuthering Heights 2002
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