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Misanthropy Misbehavior (See MISCHIEVOUSNESS.) Ahab, Captain consumed by hate, pursues whale that ripped off his leg. [Am. Lit.: Moby Dick] antisocial hero. [Fr. Lit.: Le Misanthrope] Melville’s social satire castigating mankind. [Am. Lit.: The Confidence Man, Magill III, 221–223] hated mankind; avoided public appearances. [Rom. Myth.: Kravitz, 84] indicates hatred of mankind. [Flower Symbol-ism: Flora Symbolica, 178] brilliant captain of submarine, “Nautilus”; bitter misanthropy the reason for his undersea seclusion. [Fr. Lit.: Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea] friend of fish, scourge of man. [Comics: Horn, 640] indicates hatred of mankind. [Flower Symbolism: Flora Symbolica, 178] “undone by goodness,” turns misanthropic. [Br. Lit.: Timon of Athens] How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| They had stopped to rest beneath a finger-post where four roads met, and Mr Codlin in his deep misanthropy had let down the drapery and seated himself in the bottom of the show, invisible to mortal eyes and disdainful of the company of his fellow creatures, when two monstrous shadows were seen stalking towards them from a turning in the road by which they had come. There were the two sisters, the bride, and the artist--the latter in one of his customary fits of moody misanthropy. The first risk that Dantes ran was, that the jailer, when he brought him his supper at seven o'clock, might perceive the change that had been made; fortunately, twenty times at least, from misanthropy or fatigue, Dantes had received his jailer in bed, and then the man placed his bread and soup on the table, and went away without saying a word. |
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