nihilistic

Example Sentences

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With no place to check my backpack, I wore it up to the Place du Casino, the forum for Monte Carlo’s slightly nihilistic glamour.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 10, 2026

“They’re so principled and motivated, even if it’s in a nihilistic way,” she said.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 20, 2025

His rising stature, however, exposed him to the darker elements of life on the internet: cynical attitudes, nihilistic teardowns, simplistic posts willingly ignorant of nuance and context—the antithesis of everything he seemed to live by.

From Slate • Nov. 1, 2025

The top-level diplomat who spent years at the transatlantic defence alliance asked not to be named in order to speak freely, but why so nihilistic?

From BBC • May 3, 2025

The Threepenny Opera was a kind of Trainspotting for the late 1920s, presenting the middle classes with a grimy, warts-and-all vision of the alienated, nihilistic underclass.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall