cynically
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"If I look at it cynically, I can't help but think that maybe she really wants to change" Japan's anti-nuclear commitment, 82-year-old Satoshi Tanaka, a campaigner who survived the 1945 attack on Hiroshima, told AFP.
From Barron's ● Aug. 9, 2026
As she relates in this new and admirable work of social history, all sorts of elements—some well-intentioned, some cynically opportunistic—contributed to produce a wholesale reworking of the way America’s children approach their food.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 20, 2026
Sometimes, as “Back to the Future” cynically implies, it backslides or gets stuck.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2025
Instead, Kirk is cynically manipulating his male audience.
From Salon ● Aug. 28, 2025
“You can’t get in,” Eleanor said wildly, and again there was a silence, as though the house listened with attention to her words, understanding, cynically agreeing, content to wait.
From "The Haunting of Hill House" by Shirley Jackson
