misanthropic

Definition

Having a negative view of mankind. This may express itself as, e.g., distrust, dislike, hate, or contempt.

Etymology

From misanthrope + -ic.

Example Sentences

• "[C]hildren, ſervants, are falſe, fraudful, foul, if the miſanthropic man, who is father and maſter, lets fall among them, in his outbreaks of paſſion, his opinion that they are ſo."
• "The torturers of any form of life torture the life. In this they are not only abominators of form, but haters of nature; and the violationist school is misozoic, life-hating; in continuation of that which it also is, misanthropic, or an enemy of mankind."

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