misanthropy

Furbanks argues that Swift was not so "far gone in sick misanthropy" as this conventional interpretation would suggest.

Neither misanthropy, indolence, nor weariness were his permanent moods.

The human sweetness in him was half dried up, and a misanthropy, so new and alien to him, made him querulous and captious.

It will be said, for instance, that there are different kinds of misanthropy.

He pursued his own course in all matters, but there was no misanthropy or harshness in his manner or deportment.

I began to perceive that merriment is only malice in disguise, and that the chief cardinal virtue is misanthropy.