Thesaurus / cynical
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He writes that criticism of his performance on nursing homes was the organized and cynical work of Republicans looking to avoid accountability for their own failures in the face of the crisis.
NOT MENTIONED IN CUOMO’S CORONAVIRUS BOOK: HOW MANY NURSING HOME RESIDENTS DIED IN NEW YORKBY JOE SEXTONOCTOBER 23, 2020PROPUBLICASo she was “pretty cynical” when a friend invited her to be a private beta tester for a new social-media platform, Telepath, in March 2019.
A NEW SOCIAL-MEDIA PLATFORM WANTS TO ENFORCE “KINDNESS.” CAN THAT EVER WORK?TANYA BASUOCTOBER 7, 2020MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEWMore recently, however, concerns about misinformation, disinformation, and worse have left many much more cynical.
THE RACE FOR A COVID-19 VACCINE SHOWS THE POWER OF ‘COMMUNITY INTELLIGENCE’MATTHEWHEIMERSEPTEMBER 9, 2020FORTUNEThen again, his theory for why it’s become a leaguewide trend is a more cynical one.
THE PACE OF PLAY HAS NEVER BEEN FASTER IN THE WNBAHOWARD MEGDALAUGUST 6, 2020FIVETHIRTYEIGHTI actually, despite being very cynical, I actually have a much more optimistic view of it.
SPEAK SOFTLY AND CARRY BIG DATA (EP. 395)STEPHEN J. DUBNEROCTOBER 31, 2019FREAKONOMICSDeath, to do him justice, he had met with none of the cowardice he had vaunted, and consistently with his arid cynical soul.
ANCESTORSGERTRUDE ATHERTONThere was a quiet, cynical smile on his face as he sat there beating a tattoo on his leggings with a hickory twig.
THE SOLDIER OF THE VALLEYNELSON LLOYDThat gratitude is the expectation of favors to come was, in the case of Aristide, a cynical and inapplicable proposition.
THE JOYOUS ADVENTURES OF ARISTIDE PUJOLWILLIAM J. LOCKESomething seemed to puzzle him, for he was frowning, but by and by the old cynical smile came back.
THE SOLDIER OF THE VALLEYNELSON LLOYDHis smile was cynical, and suggested a kind of contemptuous pity for the person to whom he spoke.
THE EVERLASTING ARMSJOSEPH HOCKINGWORDS RELATED TO CYNICAL
- anxious
- at end of one's rope
- blue
- brokenhearted
- can't win
- cynical
- dejected
- depressed
- desperate
- disconsolate
- downcast
- forlorn
- frantic
- grief-stricken
- hopeless
- in pain
- in the dumps
- in the pits
- in the soup
- inconsolable
- melancholic
- melancholy
- miserable
- no-win
- not a prayer
- oppressed
- pessimistic
- sad
- shot down
- strabilious
- suicidal
- sunk
- weighed down
- wretched
- abandoned
- alone
- bereft
- blue
- cheerless
- comfortless
- cynical
- defenseless
- depressed
- deserted
- desolate
- despairing
- desperate
- despondent
- destitute
- destroyed
- disconsolate
- down and out
- dragging
- forgotten
- forsaken
- friendless
- fruitless
- futile
- godforsaken
- helpless
- homeless
- in the dumps
- lonely
- lonesome
- lost
- miserable
- oppressed
- pathetic
- pessimistic
- pitiable
- pitiful
- solitary
- tragic
- unhappy
- vain
- weighed down
- woebegone
- wretched
- bad
- beyond recall
- cynical
- dejected
- demoralized
- despairing
- desperate
- despondent
- disconsolate
- discouraging
- downhearted
- fatal
- forlorn
- gone
- goner
- helpless
- ill-fated
- impossible
- impracticable
- in despair
- incurable
- irredeemable
- irreparable
- irreversible
- irrevocable
- lost
- menacing
- no-win
- past hope
- pointless
- sad
- shot down
- sinister
- sunk
- threatening
- tragic
- unachievable
- unavailing
- unfortunate
- unmitigable
- up the creek
- useless
- vain
- woebegone
- worsening
- acrid
- alert
- arrogant
- backbiting
- biting
- bitter
- burlesque
- caustic
- chaffing
- clever
- contemptuous
- contradictory
- critical
- cutting
- cynical
- defiant
- derisive
- disparaging
- double-edged
- exaggerated
- implausible
- incisive
- incongruous
- ironical
- jibing
- keen
- mocking
- mordant
- paradoxical
- pungent
- quick-witted
- ridiculous
- sardonic
- satiric
- satirical
- scathing
- scoffing
- sharp
- sneering
- spicy
- trenchant
- twisted
- uncomplimentary
- unexpected
- witty
- wry
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