cynicism

Example Sentences

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With the phone potentially containing messages about Lord Mandelson, Streeting said he was "not surprised by the cynicism" but did not "assume deceit" from McSweeney.

From BBC • Mar. 25, 2026

I left that and struggled for years with the standard outcomes of intense combat service mixed with a total disillusionment and cynicism around the wars that I fought in.

From Slate • Mar. 4, 2026

So Henry converted, and with classic French cynicism is famously reported to have said, “Paris is well worth a Mass.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 16, 2026

Van Der Beek wades through all of the screenplay’s cynicism in search of something deeper and more complicated — something human.

From Salon • Feb. 15, 2026

We have responded to this distant Austrian’s voice across the years and the continents so spontaneously because his music seems simply to flow out of him, intuitively, without cynicism or intellectual pretension.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall