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cynically

adverb as in hopelessly

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Perhaps it’d be cynical to assume that anonymous donors are all as covertly egotistical as Danson seems.

Companies that claim to care about being socially responsible are often greeted with a cynical eye.

From Fortune

Tadelis, by the end of his time at eBay, had come to think that his cynical view of advertising didn’t go far enough.

As a kind of post-Brexit tale of upper-level government machinations, “Roadkill” couldn’t be more cynical about the political process.

I spent 2018 traveling the country, interviewing the voters who’d made a cynical, Trumpian bargain in 2016, most of them conservative Christians.

From Fortune

“I hate to be cynical about it, but I think some of the films made are made very cynically,” she says.

Meanwhile, Democratic leaders blubber about racism while cynically scheming for a permanent demographic majority.

No more cynically cutting opposition candidates out of a district for petty political purposes.

Whether it did so naively or cynically, I honestly do not know.

Republican senators just cynically backed an amendment that would limit the influence of big donors.

He and his wife were falling naturally into the way of—as he had just cynically styled it—fashionable people.

But you may cynically remind me that nothing will come of the Determinists' protest against the evil social conditions.

"I guess in a good many cases it wouldn't do to be too curious," she said cynically.

Lamont laughed cynically, and dumped the great body on the heap of clothes which stood for a bed.

"No woman is above her own heart," Millar replied cynically.

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On this page you'll find 18 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to cynically, such as: desperately, sadly, dispiritedly, darkly, dejectedly, and desolately.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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