cynic

Example Sentences

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A cynic might say it’s just words, that actions are what matter, especially public safety, something to which the City Council majority has been inattentive.

From Seattle Times

As investors rename their firms and their funds in a race to ride the E.S.G. wave, cynics see the debate over the term’s definition as degenerating into everyone seeing gibberish.

From New York Times

Just as he did in his first budget address, Mr. Murphy quoted the Irish playwright Oscar Wilde’s definition of a cynic — someone who knows “the price of everything and the value of nothing.”

From New York Times

A cynic is rarely disappointed by this Republican Party.

From Washington Post

The Economist calls Johnson “possibly the biggest cynic ever to become prime minister.”

From Washington Post