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Or to put it slightly less misanthropically, you miss the shared astonishment and delight at a brilliant combination or desperate last-second checkmate.

From Time Magazine Archive

"I must have some object to embrace," said he misanthropically.

From Life of George Washington — Volume 01 by Irving, Washington

Patching was misanthropically reviewing his career, and exulting in future triumphs over his professional enemies.

From Round the Block by Bouton, John Bell

Some very wicked people—mutineers, in fact—have retired, misanthropically, into an unfrequented part of the country, and there find themselves safe, indeed, but extremely thirsty.

From The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing by Ruskin, John

On the first occasion it was at my charterers, where he came in misanthropically to get paid for towing out a French barque the day before.

From Falk A Reminiscence by Conrad, Joseph