Marked by or displaying scornful or disdainful irony or mocking.
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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 It was foolish to question the power in that grave, sardonic face.
2 The result is sardonic but danceable electro-pop from the strangest of sources.
3 The last remark raised sardonic eyebrows on two faces in the line.
4 The energy of the man was prodigious; but his luck was sardonic .
5 Corin shifted enough to give him a sardonic look, but said nothing.
6 The speaker paused hopefully; that same sardonic flicker was on his lips.
7 Somewhere in the garden a little sardonic laugh was clipt to silence.
8 The idle whim of a sardonic old man; nothing more than that.
9 One day he will allow himself a sardonic chuckle at the irony.
10 The laughter is sarcastic, the humour sardonic , and the credulity beyond analysis.
11 But the sardonic joke of the business lies deeper than all this.
12 Now the sardonic grin was unmistakable on die face of the chief.
13 Mrs. Grivois looked fixedly at her, and said in a sardonic tone:
14 He found something in the bronzed, rugged face that was unusually sardonic .
15 The hand holding it was firm, the face fronting me savagely sardonic .
16 I make a sardonic bow, hoping I look at least somewhat composed.
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