Synonym: misanthropic, misanthropical. Similar words: cynic, cynicism, clinical, technical, ironically, mechanical, technicality, communicate. Meaning: ['sɪnɪkl] adj. believing the worst of human nature and motives; having a sneering disbelief in e.g. selflessness of others.
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91 She also felt shock that he should actually be capable of such an utterly cynical act.
92 There's enough drive and bite here to satisfy even the most cynical that Carter haven't worn themselves thin just yet.
93 Indeed, without specific performance consequences, most of us quickly grow cynical.
94 It is easy and almost certainly wrong to be cynical about in-service training.
95 He probably worked hard at that tough, cynical look,[sentencedict.com/cynical.html] she decided irritably.
96 Her outwardly cynical manner concealed a warm heart, and she was devoted to those she loved.
97 They're using sex in a cynical attempt to sell more books.
98 In this day and age people are rightly cynical about propositions concerning the power of ideas.
99 No wonder we are personally repulsed and cynical about public life and those who inhabit it.
100 A lot of reports said we were very negative and cynical against the scum.
101 Murdoch's motivation was simply profit, and his cynical attitude had already led to a mass exodus of high-minded journalists.
102 The result is a cynical, lightly amusing movie, one pleased smile from start to finish.
103 Voters have become cynical about the influence of interest groups on politicians.
104 I think in those days all private eye and detective shows were very cynical and hard-boiled.
105 As a result, the aging princess becomes bitter and cynical about men.
106 If this sounds cynical, it is not difficult to set up a simple experiment.
107 As the promises fill the political atmosphere, it is easy to become cynical about the candidates and the process.
108 On a more cynical level, business-wise it really helps to be popular.
109 It was political posturing - at which parliament has excelled - at its cynical worst.
110 The trouble is that the problem is proving to be more intractable than even the most cynical Democrats had feared.
111 BAshley, cynical beyond her 10 years, is resigned to more disappointment.
112 Indeed from the standpoint of a cynical manipulator we could even invert his logic.
113 She spoke in a metallic tone of almost cynical exasperation, fixing Ludens with her intense dark stare.
114 Too many of us don't have them anymore, either because we're too self-centered or too cynical.
115 Nevertheless, the move of 1290 was not quite as cynical as all this may suggest.
116 As a cynical attempt to manipulate the electorate and the media, it was unsurpassed.
117 And yet to pretend that Nathaniel is our sole salvation is too cynical.
118 Those who proclaimed it may have done so for cynical reasons, but I doubt that they genuinely believed it.
119 But his actions were perhaps not entirely a matter of cynical expediency.
120 In fact, he was brutally cynical, ruthlessly efficient and hardened to every sob story under the sun.
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