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CYNICAL
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Believing the worst of human nature and motives; having a sneering disbelief in e.g. selflessness of others
Synonyms:
cynical; misanthropic; misanthropical
Classified under:
Similar:
distrustful (having or showing distrust)
Derivation:
cynic (someone who is critical of the motives of others)
Context examples:
"That's true." She hesitated. "Well, I've had a very bad time, Nick, and I'm pretty cynical about everything."
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
We got up, and she explained that we were going to find the host—I had never met him, she said, and it was making me uneasy. The undergraduate nodded in a cynical, melancholy way.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
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