cynic
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Diogenes the Cynic famously carried a lantern searching for an honest man.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 2, 2026
Cynic, realist, whatever: when I stood around chatting with my free drink, surrounded by optimism, I harbored some reservations about the usefulness of analog astronautics and the motivations of the participants.
From Scientific American • Jul. 10, 2023
The Cynic replied “stop standing in my sunbeam.”
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2020
Alec MacGillis is a reporter for ProPublica and the author of “The Cynic: The Political Education of Mitch McConnell.”
From New York Times • Mar. 7, 2019
“When Diogenes the Cynic heard, in a debate, that there was no such thing as change nor motion, he refuted the charge by walking about the stage during his opponent’s speech, waggling his legs.”
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
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