Someone who is critical of the motives of others.
Ancient school of philosophy.
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Examples for "cynicism "
Examples for "cynicism "
1 The market in short is complacent, with a good bit of cynicism .
2 Anyone who follows politics long enough develops a certain immunity towards cynicism .
3 If you've come looking for cynicism then you're in the wrong place.
4 Yet for scale and cynicism the Russian system, for now, stands alone.
5 Reality appears in a slightly milder light through the filter of cynicism .
Inclined to believe the worst about people.
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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