CYNICAL in a Sentence
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46 example sentences for CYNICAL, such as:
1. I hope I don't sound unduly cynical.
2. Harry is so cynical, he terrifies me.
3. I think she takes a rather cynical view of men.
4. With that cynical outlook, he doesn't trust anyone.
5. The undergraduate nodded in a cynical, melancholy way.
2. Harry is so cynical, he terrifies me.
3. I think she takes a rather cynical view of men.
4. With that cynical outlook, he doesn't trust anyone.
5. The undergraduate nodded in a cynical, melancholy way.
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Meanings and Examples of CYNICAL
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cynical
a. believing the worst of human nature and motives; having a sneering disbelief in e.g. selflessness of others
Classic Sentence: (35 in 3 pages)
1 There was a cool recklessness in his face and a cynical humor in his mouth as he smiled at her, and Scarlett caught her breath.
2 His eyes waited on her words, cynical amusement in them, and she could not go on.
3 He had changed from her friend to a cynical man in overalls.
4 She was cynical about the joys of a simple laborious life.
5 The captain introduced her to the secretary of a congressman, a cynical young widow with many acquaintances in the navy.
6 Unhappy women are given to protecting their sensitiveness by cynical gossip, by whining, by high-church and new-thought religions, or by a fog of vagueness.
7 If enough of us do this impolitely enough, then we'll become civilized in merely twenty thousand years or so, instead of having to wait the two hundred thousand years that my cynical anthropologist friends allow.
8 During the night-watches some cynical old sailors will crawl into them and coil themselves away there for a nap.
9 Usually, when Lena referred to her life in the country at all, she dismissed it with a single remark, humorous or mildly cynical.
10 Jurgis was vexed when the cynical Jokubas translated these signs with sarcastic comments, offering to take them to the secret rooms where the spoiled meats went to be doctored.
11 Harry is so cynical, he terrifies me.
12 He was too clever and too cynical to be really fond of.
13 He had nearly swooned at what Lord Henry had said in a chance mood of cynical jesting.
14 The undergraduate nodded in a cynical, melancholy way.
15 In those cynical words there was indeed a grain of truth.
Example Sentence:
1 With that cynical outlook, he doesn't trust anyone.
2 I think she takes a rather cynical view of men.
3 Christmas should be a time of excitement and wonder, not a cynical marketing ploy.
4 It was a strange conjunction — the prim serious young Queen and the elderly, cynical Whig.
5 I hope I don't sound unduly cynical.
6 What I find sad, and cynical, is that this guy is essentially saying things will not be better by 2012.
7 Sophisticated and cynical, Jack could not believe Jill was as artless and naive as she appeared to be.
8 Without wisdom, cynicism is only another way of being stupid.
9 The rich youth cynically declared that the panacea for all speeding tickets was a big enough bribe.
10 They cynically tried to trade off a reduction in the slaughter of dolphins against a resumption of commercial whaling.
11 Some cynics say that sport is a mere instrument of capitalist domination.