cynical

How To Use cynical In A Sentence

• Outwardly tough, aloof and cynical, she does a good deal of nail-chewing and fiddling with a cigarette as she decides whether Jack can be trusted.
• 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
• 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.
• 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.
• Naturally trustful people must never be given a good reason to become cynical, for cynicism is the enemy of every honor system.
• Pukhov, a careerist painter, sacrifices his artistic integrity by cynically painting potboilers to please factory and party committees.