They were professedly looking into the enormous central cage of monkeys, and being thoroughly annoyed by William, she compared him to a wretched misanthropical ape, huddled in a scrap of old shawl at the end of a pole, darting peevish glances of suspicion and distrust at his companions.
"Night and Day"
Virginia Woolf
It was a joke-a vile, malicious joke, worthy of the crabbed, misanthropical old man!
"Only One Love, or Who Was the Heir"
Charles Garvice
Most misanthropical and cynical estimates of man are due to this mingled ignorance and conceit.
"Friendship"
Hugh Black