Someone who is critical of the motives of others.
Ancient school of philosophy.
Inclined to believe the worst about people.
Синонимы
Examples for "cynical "
Examples for "cynical "
1 New Zealand's Foreign Minister Murray McCully said it was cynical and disappointing.
2 When he discussed the military situation, O'Byrne was both interesting and cynical .
3 Twenty years on he is deeply cynical about the Met's new investigation.
4 Yet it is true that we don't always need to be cynical .
5 Maybe Deckham was right; maybe he was just too cynical for magic.
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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