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US
/ˈsɪnɪkəɫi, ˈsɪnɪkɫi/
]
[ UK /sˈɪnɪkli/ ]
[ UK /sˈɪnɪkli/ ]
ADVERB
-
with cynicism; in a cynical manner
Larsen's frost-blackened lips curved cynically
How To Use cynically In A Sentence
- The director hopes to excite the faithful and (cynically speaking), get religious bums in cinema seats.
- Pukhov, a careerist painter, sacrifices his artistic integrity by cynically painting potboilers to please factory and party committees.
- He was cynically giving the audiences what they wanted and expected.
- All these have been supposedly cynically instituted by the state capital complex.
- 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?
- Trying to keep from getting what she cynically called gooey, he shrugged. Captured by Moonlight
- Pukhov, a careerist painter, sacrifices his artistic integrity by cynically painting potboilers to please factory and party committees.
- It's easy cynically to suggest that some artists ' career and reputation would be bolstered by their own deaths.
- 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
- He cynically ignited this class war as cover for the failure of his policies. The Sun