cynical
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As for the more negative folks, who can blame them for feeling cynical?
From Salon • Apr. 7, 2026
“While he was a very serious, earnest activist, he also had such an acute sense of cynical humor that is so fantastic and was capable of scathing satire,” her brother Devin added.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 8, 2026
Have we become poisonously cynical or properly sceptical?
From BBC • Mar. 7, 2026
And I think part of why we’re having this conversation is that sometimes that is too cynical, and sometimes, as was the case with the tariffs case, it’s just wrong.
From Slate • Mar. 4, 2026
He has sung whole love songs to the cynical crowds, told tall stories of courage and honor, doing all this without any mythic display, without savvy, almost embarrassing the urban throng.
From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee
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