cynicism
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So I’m hoping there’s a combination of that with a greater cynicism about the A.I. companies, a greater realization that the real needs you.
From Slate ● Sep. 29, 2026
To forge better social connections, weigh whether shyness, cynicism or snap judgments of others hold you back.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 18, 2026
That kind of cynicism is cheap and facile and masquerades as intelligence and erudition.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
Two of America’s most idealistic presidents, Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan, followed an era of Johnsonian-Nixonian cynicism.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
My colleagues accuse me of cynicism, but I am simply a victim of poetry.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
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
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
And golfers are as prone as the police to develop fatalistic cynicisms about their fellow men.
From Time Magazine Archive
Leandre stared, wondering was this another of Scaramouche's cynicisms.
From Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini
Vocabulary lists containing cynicism
Grade 10, List 1
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President Obama's Farewell Address
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