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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121 We may well feel cynical about the type of best-selling adventure which assumes heroism without accounting for it.
122 Jensen's experience in prison left him hard-bitten, cynical, and ruthless.
123 The electoral framework makes the operation particularly cynical: a pounding of people who in no way deserved it.
124 I have a cynical notion that all religious revivals spawn from times of extreme economic disparity.
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125 Realities were not so simple, men neither so cynical, nor so naive.
126 The press, in its callous, cynical way, was suspicious of the pro-gram at first and called it pure symbolism.
127 He was now presenting himself as a cynical hard-nosed East End wheeler-dealer.
128 She wondered what experience had moulded him into the cynical man that he now was.
129 Finally, these books are less constrained and more cynical in their criticism of science than those written by nonscientists.
130 He was a man of course, accustomed to hard knocks, not exactly cynical, but not dreamy-eyed.
131 The narration alternates personal observation and historical facts to cynical effect.
132 Within a year or two, the persona of the disaffected hipster would prove too cynical, too alienated to last.
133 With what Mattie interpreted to be a cynical smile, the woman repeated in a most deliberately explicit manner her question.
134 They bearded me with cynical questions.
135 The cynical Eurocrat has seemingly been proved right.
136 Ridley viewed his work with a cynical detachment.
137 Many cynical managers see employees as cannon fodder.
138 Older, more cynical hands may find this disturbingly familiar.
139 People who chronically cynical a pain to work with.
140 Pop records can be crass and cynical.
141 The Devil’s Dictionary, as I’ve mentioned before, was written more than 100 years ago by Ambrose Bierce, a rather cynical guy. And so I think one I can only love from this safe distance.
142 What a cynical Mr Putin really wants is a Russian sphere of influence in Europe.
143 All the while becoming crusty and cynical or a pathetic, sniveling victim.
144 It can be cynical, manipulative, and egotistic, or it can be joyous and guileless.
145 Article 142 The lawyers of both parties shall respect each other in the court trial or negotiation, no one may use sharp-fanged , cynical or insulting languages.
146 C. Northcote Parkinson's cynical observation that the number of subordinates in an organization will increase linearly regardless of the amount of work to be done.
147 Most women are bored with, and cynical about, the well-trodden path of romantic fiction. They do not like happy endings and would rather read a thriller or crime novel.
148 Forget the romantic novel. Most women are bored with, and cynical about, the well-trodden path of romantic fiction.
149 The formal exchange of tributes may seem like nostalgic gestures from a more genteel, less cynical era, but the participants re-enact a classical political dramaturgy.
150 I have seen much inhumanity, cheating, corruption, sordidness and selfishness but I have not become cynical.
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