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cynicism

[sin-uh-siz-uhm] / ˈsɪn əˌsɪz əm /


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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

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

He still has a valid claim at least to being the outsider who keeps beating the incumbents at their own game of nonstop, seven-day-a-week cynicism.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 13, 2026

It has produced laws of a cynicism scarcely believable in a civilized society.

From "Black Like Me" by John Howard Griffin




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