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Recent Examples of misanthropy
Gervais plays Tony, a newspaperman who's sunk into miserable misanthropy after losing his wife, Lisa (Kerry Godliman), to cancer.
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Kevin Jacobsen, EW.com, 11 Sep. 2024
Eventually, my dad seemed to notice my adolescent misanthropy.
—Nicolaia Rips, The New Yorker, 21 June 2024
Everett’s primary characters tend toward reluctant heroism but also, at times, vengeance, alongside streaks of misanthropy.
—James Yeh, Vulture, 19 Mar. 2024
Polanski’s viewpoint is so controlled, there’s no rage in his apparent misanthropy.
—Armond White, National Review, 14 Feb. 2024
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Kevin Jacobsen, EW.com, 11 Sep. 2024
Eventually, my dad seemed to notice my adolescent misanthropy.
—Nicolaia Rips, The New Yorker, 21 June 2024
Everett’s primary characters tend toward reluctant heroism but also, at times, vengeance, alongside streaks of misanthropy.
—James Yeh, Vulture, 19 Mar. 2024
Polanski’s viewpoint is so controlled, there’s no rage in his apparent misanthropy.
—Armond White, National Review, 14 Feb. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for misanthropy
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Both women seem stuck in a cycle of mutual antagonism, leaving us to wonder how long the truce will last before someone gets triggered again.Shelby Stewart, Essence, 16 Dec. 2024
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Iran’s leadership is steeped in antagonism toward both Israel and the United States, and the regime’s investment in its nuclear program and proxy network has been key to its survival strategy.Suzanne Maloney, Foreign Affairs, 10 Dec. 2024
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In January, the World Bank and Ipsos, a market research firm, estimated that nearly 60% of Gaza’s water and sanitation infrastructure had been damaged or destroyed by hostilities.Sophie Tanno, CNN, 19 Dec. 2024
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Soon afterward, the U.S. said the system would not be deployed to Ukraine, with deputy Pentagon spokesperson Sabrina Singh telling reporters that the war between Russia and Ukraine differed to hostilities in the Middle East.Michael D. Carroll AND Brendan Cole, Newsweek, 19 Dec. 2024
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So filmmaker Zack Snyder, who’d taken over as visionary leader of the DCEU, was forced to gut much of his film’s central motivations for Batman’s and Superman’s animosity toward one another, and removing most of Superman’s emotional and heroic arc in the process.Mark Hughes, Forbes, 17 Dec. 2024
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The visit is being investigated in connection with the alleged killer’s apparent animosity towards the healthcare industry.Cayla Bamberger, New York Daily News, 14 Dec. 2024
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All of the hatred and violence of their relationship all culminated in this moment.Jackie Strause, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Dec. 2024
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But this act also gave people permission to go far enough—to acknowledge their righteous hatred of our depraved health-care system, and even to conjure something funny or silly or joyous out of that hate.Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 13 Dec. 2024
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The closest parallel was nearly 50 years ago, when then-Egyptian President Anwar Sadat jettisoned decades of enmity and abruptly announced his readiness to travel to Israel, kickstarting diplomacy that led to a peace treaty.Ned Temko, The Christian Science Monitor, 19 Dec. 2024
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That space the evil one abstracted stood From his own evil, and for the time remained Stupidly good, of enmity disarmed.Merve Emre, The New Yorker, 16 Dec. 2024
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In the gut are a subset of specialized antigen-presenting cells called dendritic cells (DCs) that prime immune responses crucial to the development of food allergies.New Atlas, New Atlas, 21 Dec. 2024
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The company suggests consumers with a milk allergy discard these chips but that no other products or flavors have been recalled.Kimberlee Speakman, People.com, 19 Dec. 2024
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Despite the industry’s antipathy for Joe Biden, U.S. oil output has climbed steadily during his presidency to a record 13 million bpd of oil and 125 bcfd of natural gas today.Christopher Helman, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2024
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This level of antipathy toward American progressives is not uncommon among Chinese liberals, who, since 2016, have flocked toward Trump, in part to repudiate a Democratic Party whose emphasis on political correctness—real or imagined—reminds them of China’s past disasters in socialist governance.Chang Che, The New Yorker, 21 Dec. 2024
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Tomas Rodriguez | Corbis | Getty Images President-elect Donald Trump has made his dislike for student debt relief clear.Annie Nova, CNBC, 29 Nov. 2024
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Still, Carro has made no secret of his dislike for the rule.Paolo Confino, Fortune, 28 Nov. 2024
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“Misanthropy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/misanthropy. Accessed 2 Jan. 2025.
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