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The girl has a brave nature, however, and succeeds in saving the estate from ruin and in reclaiming her uncle from the misanthropical disregard of his duties as a landlord.

From Condemned as a Nihilist A Story of Escape from Siberia by Paget, Walter

But there was nothing morbid or misanthropical in his composition; his shyness was rather the result of an intense devotion to his studies.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 105, July 1866 by Various

In his serious poems he calls it "the loss of his illusions;" and expresses himself with misanthropical indignation, or with a bleeding heart.

From My Recollections of Lord Byron by Jerningham, Hubert E. H. (Hubert Edward Henry), Sir

The last name was not inappropriate, for a more morose, solitary, and misanthropical man never lived than Henry Dubarry, the builder of that house.

From Cruel As The Grave by Southworth, Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte

In other mouths Rousseau's sentiment, more fully interpreted, became unequivocally misanthropical.

From Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) by Stephen, Leslie, Sir