cynicism

So I’m hoping there’s a combination of that with a greater cynicism about the A.I. companies, a greater realization that the real needs you.

From Slate ● Sep. 29, 2026

To forge better social connections, weigh whether shyness, cynicism or snap judgments of others hold you back.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 18, 2026

That kind of cynicism is cheap and facile and masquerades as intelligence and erudition.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

It’s a superb sequence, one in which Mr. Harington shows the depth of his talent and which all of Sydney’s earlier cynicism and strutting has made more convincing, and moving.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026

Add to the cynicism of a man wounded in war the inevitable cynicism of growing older and the professional cynicism of the journalist.

From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson

The girls' faces are fresh and untouched by the indulgences and cynicisms of city life.

From BBC ● Nov. 23, 2014

Gold will be accused of twin cynicisms – of jumping on the Olympics bandwagon and of manipulating its audience's emotions.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 2, 2012

The sly digressions of a slanting bishop, the rapid cynicisms of a threatened queen, the stormy contraditions of the agile castles—these provided dialect in which the finest abstractions could be stated.

From Time Magazine Archive

And golfers are as prone as the police to develop fatalistic cynicisms about their fellow men.

From Time Magazine Archive

Lytton indited not a little bombast, Dickens had his incurable mannerisms, and Thackeray his conventional cynicisms.

From Studies in Early Victorian Literature by Frederic Harrison