cynicism
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And there is so much cynicism in that play.
From Slate ● Jun. 29, 2026
Turning Robin Hood into a conflicted antihero suggests society has been infiltrated by cynicism about anyone being able to save us.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 23, 2026
The film isn’t arguing with cynicism; it’s presenting an alternative.
From Salon ● Jun. 13, 2026
“And it gives me so much inspiration to be a part of it, a movement powered not by cynicism or political insiders, but by ordinary people who still believe Los Angeles is worth fighting for.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 3, 2026
In their broken state, they were judged and condemned by people whose commitment to fairness had been broken by cynicism, hopelessness, and prejudice.
From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson
The girls' faces are fresh and untouched by the indulgences and cynicisms of city life.
From BBC ● Nov. 23, 2014
Gold will be accused of twin cynicisms – of jumping on the Olympics bandwagon and of manipulating its audience's emotions.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 2, 2012
America's discussion and debate, its hopes and cynicisms about the post-war world, moved last week to a new plane.
From Time Magazine Archive
The sly digressions of a slanting bishop, the rapid cynicisms of a threatened queen, the stormy contraditions of the agile castles—these provided dialect in which the finest abstractions could be stated.
From Time Magazine Archive
I just wish you could have heard him fire up the other day, when Kenwick got off one of his cynicisms at the expense of Abraham Lincoln.
From A Venetian June by Fuller, Anna
Vocabulary lists containing cynicism
Grade 10, List 1
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President Obama's Farewell Address
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1984
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