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Meanings of cynic in English
Portuguese
cínico Catalan
criticaire Synonyms
Examples for "faultfinder"
Examples for "faultfinder"
1
He is a natural born faultfinder and grouchy by nature.
2
Yes, sir, the faultfinder is always a failure.
3
He said of himself that he had been sentenced by his nature to be the faultfinder, to see the other side of things.
4
None but interested faultfinders, I think, can discover any substantial variation.
5
They put us down as contentious, ill-tempered faultfinders.
Usage of cynic in English
1
However, the cynic in me finds that to be idealistic at best.
2
A cynic in London laughed when the speech was reported to him.
3
Take the case of the splendid cynic whose words we have quoted.
4
But it would take an almighty cynic to deny Adkins his moment.
5
And yet it had been the fashion to call Thackeray a cynic.
6
But Evan had outed himself: he was a Samaritan in cynic's clothing.
7
It need not, therefore, sit a cynic recluse on the Western sea.
8
That is, you never looked at it with my eyes before, cynic.
9
He is an amusing old cynic at times, but a born despot.
10
I do not think you are quite sure what a 'cynic' is.
11
Have you noticed here a cynic philosopher whose starving brother we maintain?
12
George's set us 'collecting' such, with results undreamed of by youthful cynic.
13
She scorned the female cynic; she disliked the carelessly liberal in moral judgment.
14
And this is the best known answer to the sneer of the cynic.
15
It wasn't the practice of law that made me a cynic.
16
But a severe man withal; nothing of the hypocrite, nothing of the cynic.
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Translations for cynic
Cynic through the time
Cynic across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common