cynical
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They can be scathingly ironic, alert to every hypocrisy that corroborates their cynical worldview, and even seductive in a perverse, power-mad way.
From Los Angeles Times
Her first novel, a satire about a pop singer brought to fame and as quickly dispatched by a cynical press, was a bestseller in the early 1930s.
“There may have a been a cynical calculation that one can work with them.”
From Los Angeles Times
“I don’t want to get too cynical, but I couldn’t really say that I feel like the city or county or state government have helped,” Griffin said.
From Los Angeles Times
Mr. McNally, who himself has a facial difference, captures the smart, savvy and just slightly cynical voice of Auggie with impressive ease.
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