Having a negative view of mankind. This may express itself as, e.g., distrust, dislike, hate, or contempt.
[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.
From misanthrope + -ic.
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