cynicism
Example Sentences
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"There is a degree of scepticism, or even downright cynicism, creeping in at the edges," he says.
From BBC
Her cynicism and King George’s sincere faith in others clash.
From Los Angeles Times
I suspect that the movie might be too smart for its own good, or perhaps hemmed in by a cynicism that, everywhere we look lately, it appears that crime does pay.
From Los Angeles Times
So Henry converted, and with classic French cynicism is famously reported to have said, “Paris is well worth a Mass.”
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 Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
