cynical
Example Sentences
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Though Charlie is handsome and clever, he is a horrible person who meets all attempts to help him with the same cynical disdain.
“My Undesirable Friends” is scary but somehow not cynical.
From Los Angeles Times
Even viewers who bristle at his character’s cynical opinions get satisfaction from watching a fact-spitter set people straight.
It would be easy for former President Barack Obama to get cynical.
From Salon
Ms. McGarr, who teaches at University of Wisconsin-Madison, is often acerbic about her subjects but notes that they were “awash in patriotic fervor at the same time that they were distrustful and cynical.”
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
