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cynicism

[sin-uh-siz-uhm] / ˈsɪn əˌsɪz əm /


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He still has a valid claim at least to being the outsider who keeps beating the incumbents at their own game of nonstop, seven-day-a-week cynicism.

From The Wall Street Journal

Still, as the years progressed, cynicism seemed to cast a pall over Superman.

From The Wall Street Journal

For we did not foresee then a world in which trust in traditional sources of news and information would be corroded by a rising cynicism, turbo-charged by social media and, increasingly now, AI.

From BBC

The friends became co-conspirators against the prevailing cynicism of the age.

From The Wall Street Journal

Still under the influence of the propaganda she had absorbed as a child, she had not then grasped the degree of Mao’s cruelty and cynicism.

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