Example sentences for: misanthropic

How can you use “misanthropic” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • His evocation of Hong Kong is "full of sharp observations--on subjects ranging from politics to food to sex to servitude" (Dwight Garner, Newsday ). But his protagonist, a misanthropic businessman named Neville "Bunt" Mullard, is deemed poorly drawn.

  • Janet Maslin, however, says the film is a "misanthropic triumph" and that "[t]he ensemble acting surpasses that of any other film this year" ( New York Times ). (See the trailer.)

  • The action revolves around six characters (two couples and two singles) who betray and manipulate each other in various combinations in a biting, misanthropic sexual satire.

  • We move with her, back before the war, as the young Clarissa (Natascha McElhone) lazes elegantly on a vast estate, romping with her saucy (and politically progressive) friend Sally Seton (Lena Headey) and putting up with Peter Walsh (Alan Cox), a misanthropic but palpably smitten suitor.

  • The misanthropic engineers, the monotonic human-resource drones, the evangelistic marketers, even the nontechnical but talented girlfriend all strike painfully home.


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