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
Tonight,Tim Goodman casts a cynical eye on TV ads.
Cynics are not surprised that politicians say one thing when they are campaigning and another when they are in power. The Sun
Naturally trustful people must never be given a good reason to become cynical, for cynicism is the enemy of every honor system.
Like me, he was a disillusioned cynic, enjoyer of beer and a great admirer of a pretty face.
For some cynics, it is merely the foreign junkets and chance to travel on per diem expenses that draws the attraction of our globalised political classes.
Rather, it invites ridicule, contempt and cynicism towards the whole devolution project.
Pukhov, a careerist painter, sacrifices his artistic integrity by cynically painting potboilers to please factory and party committees.
It was inevitable that the critical and commercial success of the film would rile the cynics.
Cynical adversary stances are not helpful - belief is necessary.
If the cynics are to be believed, the attacks were stage-managed for external consumption.
Most books with names like this one are inferior works filled with an ersatz cynicism that pales beside the real article.
In these circumstances the town can become a hollow and cynical place. Times, Sunday Times
As ever, the utopians and cynics have both jumped into the fray.
Like I said, at 16 in my 14th century cloisters I was a cynic and a puritan, convinced in some inarticulate depth that the world had gone wrong, in ways more fundamental than I could even name.
I did say there was some fun to be had, and I'd be a cold cynic if I didn't admit there was some sugar-coated amusement present in this series.
How can we live honestly, not deceiving ourselves yet not giving way to cynicism or despair? Christianity Today
Americans tend to be pretty cynical about politicians and think corruption is widespread.
His philosophical musings were a complete departure from the cynical lies of his predecessors. Times, Sunday Times
This talk betrays a certain cynicism about free trade.
I turned up a slightly cynical, badly-dressed student and left three days later, after a short spell in Southampton nick, as the blazing-eyed, still badly-dressed eco-bore I am today.
Ministers may deplore this cynicism - but they are to blame for having so many times promised so much and delivered so little. Times, Sunday Times
It revealed the cynical ways in which the "countercultural" music industry was transformed in the 1960s and 1970s by industry executives such as David Geffen and by performers such as Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen. Trying to Find The Right Beat
It ran for two years on Broadway to mixed reviews: its undisguised cynicism appalled many critics.
The first cynicism argues that the ANC government is creating a 'technicist' approach to governance, meaning that all policy is reduced to technical jargon and bureaucratic reasoning. CONTENTS:
The first to develop was legal realism - basically a group of really cynical judges.
It was a victory to bring a smile to the face of even the most cynical and world-weary sport-watcher.
He was a psychologist rather than a philosopher, and his interest and zest in life, in the relationships of simple people, the intermingling of personal emotions and happy comradeships, kept him from ever forming cynical or merely spectatorial views of humanity. Ionica
The premise is a cynical, even nihilistic one: people are the sum of their biological impulses, slaves to genes, pheromones, and the archipallium. "Unidentified Objects" by James P. Blaylock
Repenting there would come across as a cynical cultural cliché, suggesting he expects women to forgive him because he's genuflected to TV's high priestess. Tiger Woods should chat with David Letterman; Corso mum on Heisman
Others again, such as Christopher Hitchens, have been yet more cynical and critical when analysing the post-1945 era of co-operation.
Sylvia, receiving this into a sore and raw consciousness, said to herself with an embittered instinct for cynicism that she had never heard more euphonious periphrases for selling yourself for money. The Bent Twig
His decision not to hold a poll is a "nakedly cynical" calculation that he can "bulldoze" the treaty into law. Archive 2007-09-01
The non-intellectual wing of the Christian Right Community has committed a sacrilege and blasphemy, (to say nothing of the secular crime of high treason), because they have accepted the fiction of a cynical team of writers, who depict the god they describe as a homicidal, Demonic, maniac, and touted these despicable properties as "holiness," and used that as an excuse to support and urge the slaughter of their chosen Muslim fantasy enemies. THE SHAMELESS END-DAYS FICTIONAL REPLACEMENT FOR REVELATION.
So I may be a cynical, hysterical, psychotic, twisted masochist.
Though cynics may say something else, long lunches are part of the job description for a working hack.
He has presided over a marked increase in public cynicism about politics without suffering significant damage to his own electoral prospects.
The left is always warning us about the cynical vested interests of the military industrial complex allegedly manipulating public policy for their sectional gain.
This is a tough, cynical world with plenty of murders and world-weary cops trying their best to solve them.
This weekend in sickening episode of political cynicism Livingstone cheerleaders dragged out the corpse of Stephen Lawrence onto the stage courtesy of his duped mother. Black Issues or White Guilt
Voters decided it was a cynical ploy. Times, Sunday Times
He said that the expectation and excitement prompted by the Jubilee across the nation has confounded the cynics.
They also deny that delaying the pain until after the election is a cynical political ploy. Times, Sunday Times
Lengthy bonding scenes follow in which, inevitably, the hardened, world-weary, cynical bodyguard learns to love the winsome little blonde.
That this has so widely happened in our day is at least part of the reason for current cynicism and nervelessness in the effort to secure peace and justice in human relations.
Shakespeare has established that Mercutio is a rather dirty-minded young rogue, cynical about love and sex, and inclined to find ways to ridicule and embarrass everyone he deals with, including his best friends, when he thinks they're being foolish or self-destructive or pursuing pleasures that don't include Mercutio. Did Viola, Rosalind, and Portia wax?
The degradation of public discourse, the spread of cynicism, makes our collective life less civilised.
Many people have become cynical about the stage-managed debates between politicians which regularly appear on television.
I don't mean to sound bitter or cynical, but today I just can't help thinking that the world can keep on going to hell until I find a real marinara that I don't have to make myself.
He was cynically giving the audiences what they wanted and expected.
These are, of course, the sour thoughts of a crabbed and incorrigible old cynic.
But I urge you more cynical movie buffs to give this classic a try.
Critics of the allowances system say it is a cynical ploy devised by pay consultants. Times, Sunday Times
The greatest help in setting a strategy is a hefty slice of cynicism and the openness of mind to re-examine cherished beliefs.
It could be seen as a cynical ploy to avoid the move. The Sun
This particular image consultant appears to have neglected his own image, or maybe he is just happy with being cynical, self-centred, irascible and insufferable.
The cynics among us may decry the appropriation of a heartwarming symbol for the sale of soft drinks.
All these have been supposedly cynically instituted by the state capital complex.
To his mind, the venial were the more numerous, but then, he had been a cynic for many years now. The Lark And The Wren
You don't have to be much of a cynic to question whether loggers will really be held to their promises.
He was no cynic and he had been successful in love several times, but he agreed: love could be debilitating. YESTERDAY'S SHADOW
Cynics may call it lip service, considering the almost daily stream of new fund-raising allegations stemming from his 1996 campaign.
The bad news, or the cynical view, is that they have done so only because it is not particularly onerous. Times, Sunday Times
Aren't detectives meant to be hardened old cynics? The Sun
But color blindness is itself a controversial concept: Some hold it as the highest ideal of true racial equality in a post-racial society, while others cynically dismiss it as a strategy for ignoring evidence of persistent racial discrimination. Wray Herbert: Colorblind? Or Just Blind to Justice?
There is a troubling darkness in its soul, which the righteous rhetoric and cynical evocation of God seem only to enhance.
She is so sarcastic and cynical that I am happy to take the smile off her face.
Jayne McKenna shines as her cynical unmarried sister, Sarah MacRae as her tarty daughter and Morven Christie as her magnificently selfish daughter-in-law. 'Men Should Weep' marvels
I've had a cynical attitude to relationships for 10 years.
A cynic is someone who once trusted and believe and was hurt, betrayed and traumatized. Mark Goulston, M.D.: Electorate 2010 -- "Cynics 'R' Us"
Only a cynic would begrudge her this one moment of romance. Times, Sunday Times
Cynics may sneer at the idealistic thought that three musicians sitting in the Wigmore can heal a torn world. Times, Sunday Times
In such circumstances, cynicism, passivity and a sense of fatalism can influence public attitudes.
Many politicians and media critics confuse cynicism with skepticism.
Trying to keep from getting what she cynically called gooey, he shrugged. Captured by Moonlight
Free speech advocates from Diogenes the Cynic to Frank Zappa have urged libertarian openness, arguing that unfettered expression is both the right and the duty of free people.
Pukhov, a careerist painter, sacrifices his artistic integrity by cynically painting potboilers to please factory and party committees.
In this modern age of cynicism and celebrity the road from pariah to popularity is a short one.
Too little skill, or inappropriate system, or CEO indifference, leads rapidly to cynicism.
For we offer, besides ourselves, a position that has not grown old under the weight of a gigantic, parasitic bureaucracy, a position untempered by the doctoral dissertations of a generation of Ph.D. s in social architecture, unattenuated by a thousand vulgar promises to a thousand different pressure groups, uncorroded by a cynical contempt for human freedom. Buckley Athwart History
No one's critical or cynical or jaded. Christianity Today
Words Containing One Basic Root canine cynic ` dog 'febrile pyretic ` fever' lingual glossal ` tongue 'peculiar idiotic ` one's own, private' popular demotic ` people 'position thesis ` place, put' rabies mania ` madness 'regal basilic ` king' risible gelastic ` laugh 'scientism gnosticism ` know' stellar astral ` star 'terrene chthonic ` earth' testis orchid ` testis ' VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VII No 3
He had years of experience at taking his time and remaining unflustered at cynical questions and this bore fruit at this particular encounter.
There is cynicism at work every time politicians draft in some forgotten singer or soap poppet to do their dirty work.
And the longer Blix and co. fossicked around in search of weapons of mass destruction, the more cynical I became about the pretext. Boris in Iraq
It's easy cynically to suggest that some artists ' career and reputation would be bolstered by their own deaths.
The root of the word "cynic" is the same as the Greek word for "dog," and some scholars say the Cynics got their name because they barked at society. Vp Al Gore Harvard Commencement Speech
Genta is careworn, beaten down by life, and no longer naïve enough to believe in Bushido, but he's not cynical.
Far from being cynical spoilsmen or naive incompetents, individuals whose presidencies provide studies in ineptitude, Garfield and Arthur emerge as men of considerable ability.
(For example, Eeyore is the cynical foil to every other Winnie the Pooh character). Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » Yogi’s Review Forum
But those are clichés only to those of cynical persuasion who assume that an ulterior motive lurks behind every altruistic act.
So, as a Republican commentator, he applauds from the press box his party's cynical power plays, as in a game of football. Nigel Hamilton: David Brooks: Soft in the Head
And her inquisitor was the so-called 'Birther Bishop', Anabaptist minister Ron McCrae, who is deeply opposed to Obama, and - say critics - cynically set out to trap her. Home | Mail Online
It is certainly fodder for cynical jibes about leopards and spots. Times, Sunday Times
He cynically ignited this class war as cover for the failure of his policies. The Sun
She was so hard, and so more than usually cynical and unget-at-able. Dangerous Ages
This sudden ‘concern’ is entirely cynical and has nothing to do with defending democratic rights.
The a singular impression in Act One who has a tiny force of denunciation is a cynic Apemantus. Philadelphia Reflections: Shakspere Society of Philadelphia
There is now widespread cynicism about the political system.
Still, you're always willing to give something new a try (cause the true cynic is cynical about cynicism, baby, ya dig?), so you set up that new FaceBook page. Archive 2007-12-01
Extensive efforts (intellectual, spiritual and structural) have been undertaken to establish this continuity and preserve it in light of the changing fabric of the human experience and to ignore these efforts in favor of some revisionist notion of religion as changing out of pure expedience is as cynical as it is ignorant. A Response to a Response
Although her economical style can sacrifice immediacy and intimacy, this is a fiercely indignant and justly cynical work. Times, Sunday Times
Did Mr Djindjic truly believe that Mr Karadzic deserved his support, or was the gesture utterly cynical?
Too many of us don't have them anymore, either because we're too self-centered or too cynical.
He's cynical about whether the new inquiry will get closer to the truth or whether it is mere window-dressing.
Suppose a man of great birth and fortune, who in his youth had been an enthusiastic friend of Lord Byron and a jocund companion of George IV.; who had in him an immense degree of lofty romantic sentiment with an equal degree of well-bred worldly cynicism, but who, on account of that admixture, which is so rare, kept The Parisians — Complete
The ward bosses' unanticipated about-face was not motivated by conversion but cunning and deceit that cynically betrayed public trust.
Part of me is quite cynical but there's another part that wants to believe stuff like that.
All the cynicism about his abilities, all the sniping about his wages have vanished. The Sun
This sudden shift in the focus of American politics should not be dismissed merely as a cynical election gimmick.
I'd rather stay my cynical, sarcastic, bitchy, and satirist self.
MEDICARE SCARE TACTICS: Republican candidates routinely and cynically charge that the reform law will "cut" $500 billion from Medicare - leaving the clear implication that benefits will be reduced. NYT > Home Page
But he has allowed his enemies to represent him as a figure of immense gaucherie, cynicism, and stupidity. Mark Miller: Newspaper Swindlers Black and Radler Look Quaint by Today's Standards
The result is an invigorating, boisterous look at a group of wildly cynical and libidinous college brats.
Indeed, what is most troubling is that both sides to the dispute have cynically resorted to the rule of law only when it suited them.
Cynics will say that was actually the queue for an appointment. The Sun
The fascinating thing about him is he's not the cliched cynical and hard-boiled war photographer portrayed in Hollywood movies.
It was natural that this cynicism should infect poetic self-reflection, hence certain theoretico-aesthetic “movements” and manifestoes; I suspect, although I wasn’t there to witness what actually happened, that Ange is right in saying that certain avant garde poetry had tried to deliberately retreat from the figure; however, in retrospect, one finds that all poetic practice, in practice, was never really able do completely without the world or its actual things. Writing and Failure (Part 8) : Christian Bök : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation
But as the blockbuster decade progressed, heroes got slicker, glibber, and more cynical. Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
The same Pew Research Center survey found - tut-tut - a surge in the intensity of partisan feelings also turned up a decline in cynicism about government.
Cursing under his breath he aimed and missed, prompting a cynical laugh from Simon.
Some saw her apology as a cynical attempt to cling on to her job as MP with the party wanting to oust her. The Sun
Dashiell Hammett's cynical detective novel was published in 1929 and was immediately popular.
I told her that I could see her getting bored, cynical, disillusioned and angry if she joined the cops.
RUTH MARCUS, BERWICK AND HER HUSBAND - Ruth Marcus finds Obama's recess appointment of Donald Berwick to be "boneheaded," "outrageous," "cynic [al]" and an abuse of the system. HUFFPOST HILL - JULY 9TH, 2010
It's most likely a cynical one. Times, Sunday Times
Let cynics say he's just taking care of business. Times, Sunday Times
Both Ratzinger and Cheney just happened to be already occupying positions where saying they just 'lucked' into a job is a cynical circumlocution - this has nothing to do with any American election (well, indirectly in terms of Vice President Cheney), but everything to do with perfect bureaucratic positioning. Is That Legal?: "Aryanization" and the Question of German "Coercion"
Fifteen years in the teaching profession had left him world-weary and cynical.
What would that cynic who used to delight us on TV in the eighties with his elegant misanthropy have made of it all?
This has inspired overwhelming feelings of apathy and cynicism, particularly with regards to accountability. Times, Sunday Times
There is also no more cynical sport than football. Times, Sunday Times
New entrants have a shrinking sales pool to swim in – and News International can't launch a bragging, soaraway Sun on Sunday without looking crass and cynical. News of the World scandal: God's newspaper executive less than visionary
His nose was hawkish but it suited him, as did the high cheekbones and cynical quirk of his mouth.
A cynic might even think this was a deliberate strategy. Times, Sunday Times
‘I am Diogenes the Cynic,’ replied the philosopher.
He's a wee thing roosed!" remarked Sutherland, with a good-humoured yet slightly cynical grin. Blue Lights Hot Work in the Soudan
Light, youthful indie pop with enough cheeky charm to win over the most hardened cynic. The Sun
All the cynicism about his abilities, all the sniping about his wages have vanished. The Sun
On surveying the organizational ranks, they see only low morale, divisiveness, cynicism, and dulled thinking.
Whether Gore, cynically, committed himself to originalism to make some political hay is quite besides the point.
Seamus was already out of the car and, once free of it, resumed his cynical sneer.
A cynic, my dear Arthur (_he opens case deliberately, puts cigarette in mouth, and extracts gold match-box from right-hand trouser_) is a man who (_strikes match_) knows the price of (_lights cigarette_) -- everything, and (_standing with match in one hand and cigarette in the other_) the value of --- pff (_blows out match_) of (_inhales deeply from cigarette and blows out a cloud of smoke_) -- nothing. The Sunny Side
It has contributed to a lowering of investment returns and to public's growing cynicism about pension planning.
They are those rare specimens whose loyalty is uncontrived and non-cynical. Times, Sunday Times
In this fearful and cynical climate, talk about space only brings our self-doubt and loathing to the fore rather than doing anything to tackle it.
But this blog strongly deprecates that kind of cynicism about politics.
Here Kanfer shines, getting all of Bogart in an evocative, inventive phrase: "wounded, cynical, romantic, and as incorrodible as a zinc bar. "Tough Without a Gun," by Stefan Kanfer is a new biography of Humphrey Bogart
As a confirmed cynic, I'm going to reserve judgement on that one.
Larsen's frost-blackened lips curved cynically
AND not to mention as informed by the angry video game nerd Winston was cut out of all the old video games. slash i don't care how, but i'd love paul rudd in this. he has that murray cynicism. Bill Murray Gives Details on His Ghostbusters 3 Appearance | /Film
Everything bounces along with a youthful joy, devoid of cynical teenage angst, full of hope and dare we say it slightly soppy.
It is a cynical camouflage for problems caused by the boom and bust rhythm of capitalism, and the bosses' insistence that profits come before people.
Not once but several times has the libertine Neptune scandalously seduced punts and dinghies from the respectable precincts of Brammo Bay, and having philandered with them for a while, cynically abandoned them with a bump on the mainland beach, and only once has he sent a punt in return — a poor, soiled, tar-besmirched, disorderly waif that was reported to the police and reluctantly claimed. The Confessions of a Beachcomber
But even the most cynical agree that good fortune is the mark of every top-flight politician.
OH, it's easy to be cynical about the honours system. The Sun
The event is not coldly cynical or sneering, but humorous and engaging.
You should be careful of people's deeply felt grief and sense of loss before you dismiss them as selfish cynics.
But the beau Sire doesn't disappoint even the most cynical of palates - this violent fluid comes in both brut and demi-sec varieties.
This potential bid is an example of cynical opportunism and should not be allowed to proceed. Times, Sunday Times
Not in this old cynic's book. Times, Sunday Times
Mr. Breitbart says he suspects the accusations were just a cynical attempt by the left and elements of the media to "marginalize" the Tea Party movement. Rude for Reid
There is no doubt that the protest against the concert was a cynical ploy aimed at trying to revive the party's sagging fortunes.
Does that make me an epicurean cynic or a cynical epicurean?
But while cynics often serve as acute commentators, they seldom make for effective organizational leaders.
They know that you are a bore or not a bore, a grouser or not a grouser, generous or mean, sentimental or cynical, an optimist or a pessimist, and that you have or have not a sense of humour. If I May
These are not, you have to believe, the cynically high-minded ravings of a politician who merely wants to get re-elected.
The cynic within suggests that perhaps the status quo is driven by self interest of the major parties who benefit.
The capacity of history to absolve political actors is a cynical and immoral doctrine.
Henry Phillips possesses a sharp wit that is both endearing and crude, a somewhat cynical wit he has honed by performing for too many years in front of too many bored drunks in too many one-horse towns. Joseph Smigelski: Film Review: Punching the Clown
I don't think imagery of happy, peppy people is going to make people less cynical.
But speaking of plays about the Trojan War, I think I'd like to see Tiger at the Gates done in repertory Troilus and Cressida, a compare and contrast between irony and out and out cynicism. Lance Mannion:
The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not. Eric Hoffer
Disappointed expectations lead to unwarranted cynicism. Times, Sunday Times
He managed to find the comedy in melodrama without undermining suspense or lapsing into self-referential cynicism. I need to read that “Secret Empire” story
His name is Francois "Frank" Pluviose, a 42-year-old New York City cabdriver who commutes to work each week from Reading, Pennsylvania -- a two and a half hour bus ride -- and he is totally immune to the disease of cynicism that has managed to infect so much of our politics for too many years. Mike Barnicle: Driving Through History
Where it doesn't, it feels cynically provocative. Times, Sunday Times
One man cynically sums up his seemingly magical ability to recruit women for his stable: "Any woman can be turned. It is all business."
Changes to human rights laws cynically exploited by lawyers are also being looked at with an eye to slapping on a geographical limit. The Sun
A certain amount of cynicism on the part of American team bosses is justified. Times, Sunday Times
I guess my cynical nature is rearing its head here, because it looks to me like your position is emotive rather than reasoned.
It was in Belfast that his journalistic career and his cynicism about it began. Times, Sunday Times
They're quite cynical about some of this new technology.
What a cynical Mr Putin really wants is a Russian sphere of influence in Europe.
Along with ‘cynicism and misanthropy,’ he detects Catholic guilt and ‘deep-seated problems with women.’
(P.S. Recently started reading your blog, very enjoyable!) miz-cynic Road and Bus Evangelism: My take
Few, indeed, wanted to be in the army: many openly, cynically, bitterly denounced the war.
It can definitely inspire a chuckle or two from even the most cynical and hardened otaku.
Last night came the announcement cynics predicted all along: the couple had separated after 16 months.
Only the cynics who could change their belief systems overnight flourished. Times, Sunday Times
Some cynics—citing his relative anonymity and his, well, nonelectric personal style—will scoff. Minnesota's Dark Horse Catches Some Big Breaks

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