cynical
Example Sentences
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"Both to protect these children and their potential victims, the government is taking strong action against this type of cynical exploitation," he added.
From BBC
“Every grandparent wants to take their grandchild to the park to see their eyes light up just like they remember their kids did before their kids got older and cynical,” Gennawey says.
From that moment on, the sunken warship became Mr. Dooley’s lodestar, even as he “became ever more cynical” about the Cuban revolution.
They can be scathingly ironic, alert to every hypocrisy that corroborates their cynical worldview, and even seductive in a perverse, power-mad way.
From Los Angeles Times
Her first novel, a satire about a pop singer brought to fame and as quickly dispatched by a cynical press, was a bestseller in the early 1930s.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
