cynicism

The campus green they inhabit is a febrile zone in which lofty ideals and cynicism regularly collide.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026

And even if that fact might make you depressed, scrolling will deplete one’s cynicism until it’s replaced by another attention-grabbing post.

From Salon ● Jul. 31, 2026

And yet fans suspend their cynicism for a few hours — for a tournament, for a season — because they know that the communion that soccer offers is pure and holy.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026

Then a cynicism came over him: "Being from where we're from, you're sort of sceptical all the time, so I didn't really believe it."

From BBC ● Jul. 6, 2026

So they layered cynicism atop their longing, and it was something like laying laughter over the darkness—self-preservation of an uglier stripe.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor

The girls' faces are fresh and untouched by the indulgences and cynicisms of city life.

From BBC ● Nov. 23, 2014

Gold will be accused of twin cynicisms – of jumping on the Olympics bandwagon and of manipulating its audience's emotions.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 2, 2012

The sly digressions of a slanting bishop, the rapid cynicisms of a threatened queen, the stormy contraditions of the agile castles—these provided dialect in which the finest abstractions could be stated.

From Time Magazine Archive

And golfers are as prone as the police to develop fatalistic cynicisms about their fellow men.

From Time Magazine Archive

He spared her his swart intensity; he shyly quoted Tennyson, and bounced with cynicisms about “Sherbert Souse” and “the Gas-bag.”

From The Job An American Novel by Sinclair Lewis