cynic

How To Use cynic In A Sentence

• Their inability to work together for the good of the republic would only increase the peoples' cynicism about government.
• Sick of his persona - delicate emotions paired off with caustic cynicism - he creates a bogus doppelganger to hide behind.
• Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist. George Carlin 
• The young man — fortified as he was by a natural cynical pride and passionateness — winced at this unexpected reply, notwithstanding. A Changed Man
• In particular, it can be demonstrated that the choliambs, mixed with iambs, of the Hellenistic fable are comparable to those of a work with very very pronounced Cynic features, the choliambic ‘Life of Alexander’.
• I've obviously become rather cynical over time, but then when it comes to card tricks, my first thought these days is to look for the con.
• While we can credit him for some degree of intellectual honesty in confronting the hypocrisies and irrationalities that govern so much of public life, religious and non-religious, Christopher Hitchens, in the end, could not offer a vision of true humanness because he dwelled in the cynical faculties of the mind without being adequately informed by the positive wisdom of the heart. Kabir Helminski: Christopher Hitchens is "Not Great"
• The director hopes to excite the faithful and (cynically speaking), get religious bums in cinema seats.
• To anyone inclined to political cynicism, I would urge you to read this book. Times, Sunday Times
• The only benefit of being cynical is that you can surround yourself with other cynical people. Times, Sunday Times