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misanˈthropical, a.
[Formed as prec.: see -ical.]
= prec.
1621T. Granger Expos. Eccl. iv. 9 An illustration of the vanities of Misanthropicall couetousnesse. 1751Smollett Per. Pic. (1779) II. lxxi. 259 His disposition was altogether misanthropical. 1841Macaulay Ess., Hastings (1850) 604 He had thrown down his pen in misanthropical despair. 1864C. Knight Pass. Working Life II. 51 No desertion of old friends rendered me misanthropical.
b. absol. (See do v. 11 j.)
1836–7Dickens Sk. Boz., Characters i, Old fellows..who..do the misanthropical in chambers, taking great delight in thinking themselves unhappy.
Hence misanˈthropically adv.
1834H. Miller Scenes & Leg. xvi. (1857) 243 Misanthropically accumulating into one gloomy heap all that is terrible in the judgments of God. 1864[F. W. Robinson] Mattie II. 283 He thought, a little misanthropically, it did not matter. |