Meanings of already cynical in English

The fact that the coalition failed to learn from Labor's mistake has stunned an already cynical electorate.

I think the audience is already cynical.

I think the audience is already cynical, I mean look what's going on in Washington right now, it's hard not to be.

Her remarks have shaken political leaders in Berlin struggling to justify to an already cynical public Germany's increasingly bloody military intervention in northern Afghanistan.