nihilistic

Example Sentences

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“It was nihilistic almost in its total disinterest in communicating,” Bessner said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 11, 2026

The top-level diplomat who spent years at the transatlantic defence alliance asked not to be named in order to speak freely, but why so nihilistic?

From BBC • May 3, 2025

One cannot demonstrate this like a mathematical proof, but this carelessness, or callousness, about human life seems linked to fatalistic, even nihilistic attitudes.

From Salon • Apr. 5, 2025

Unfortunately for the remaining federal workers, who never signed up to take part in an eccentric billionaire’s nihilistic simulation, these days are painfully real.

From Slate • Feb. 24, 2025

The Threepenny Opera was a kind of Trainspotting for the late 1920s, presenting the middle classes with a grimy, warts-and-all vision of the alienated, nihilistic underclass.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall