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plural misanthropes
One who has a negative view of the entire human race. This may express itself as, e.g., distrust, dislike, hate, or contempt. quotations examples
Alas, poor Dean! his only scopeWas to be held a misanthrope.
1731, Jonathan Swift, On the Death of Jonathan Swift
I cannot love evergreens—they are the misanthropes of nature. To them the spring brings no promise, the autumn no decline; they are cut off from the sweetest of all ties with their kind—sympathy.
1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter V, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), page 50