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A.Word.A.Day--misanthrope misanthrope (MIS-uhn-throp, MIZ-) also misanthropist noun One who hates or mistrusts humankind. [French, from Greek misanthropos, hating mankind : miso-, + anthropos, man.] "Thomas Bernhard - dramatist, novelist, warped genius and misanthrope - despised his fellow Austrians with such ferocious thoroughness that, when he died of a heart attack in 1989, he left a will expressly forbidding the performance of any of his plays there." Paul Taylor, Fear and loathing, Independent, 20 Aug 1997. This week's theme: words not to put on a resume. X-Bonus Everyday language is a part of the human organism and is no less complicated than it. -Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) [Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, 1921]

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