Cynical is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for CYNICAL in dictionary:

ADJECTIVE:
• distrusting
• believing that people are motivated purely by self-interest; distrustful of human sincerity or integrity
• doubtful as to whether something will happen or whether it is worthwhile
• contemptuous; mocking
• believing that people always act selfishly
• Having the qualities of a surly dog; snarling; captious; currish.
• Pertaining to the Dog Star; as, the cynic, or Sothic, year; cynic cycle.
• Belonging to the sect of philosophers called cynics; having the qualities of a cynic; pertaining to, or resembling, the doctrines of the cynics.
• Given to sneering at rectitude and the conduct of life by moral principles; disbelieving in the reality of any human purposes which are not suggested or directed by self-interest or self-indulgence; as, a cynical man who scoffs at pretensions of integrity; characterized by such opinions; as, cynical views of human nature.
• believing the worst of human nature and motives; having a sneering disbelief in e.g. selflessness of others
• concerned only with one's own interests and typically disregarding accepted standards in order to achieve them
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• distrusting the motives of others

Words related to CYNICAL

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Words that contain CYNICAL

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How to use CYNICAL in a sentence

• It could not be! How could her nature, sweet as light, ever be attuned to that of her cynical cousin? She was coming nearer, nearer.
• There was nothing cynical about him, in spite of his perplexities and discouragements.
• It was the strangest avowal from this young dandy of twenty-three with the airy and cynical tongue.
• A smile, half cynical, plays across his proud face.
• As he did so an expression, half cynical, half melancholy, passed over his countenance, and a faint smile lurked about the corners of his mouth.
• Laughter had deserted it, as clearly as romance or pathos, and more and more it was becoming the vehicle of cynical biology on the one hand, and Unitarian theology on the other.
• It may be that the world grows more cynical with age, unlike a man, whose cynical period ends with youth.
• Katherine Varick had frosty blue eyes, a pale, square-jawed, slightly cynical face, a first in Natural Science, and a chemical research fellowship.
• Cynical characters take one general attitude, sympathetic characters another.
• For monastic duties he had no vocation, and the irregularities of his behaviour caused scandal even in that age of cynical indulgence.
• A congress while the Council was yet sitting, would have been too palpable and cynical a declaration of the Papal game.
• In these two rooms I spent most of my time when I was with my grandfather, reading with him, and singing to him, and listening to his cynical, witty talk.
• He was changed, too, not hard and cynical as he used to be, but kind and gentle to every one, as if he had begun to see what a beautiful place the world can be.
• A smile of cynical contentment dwelt on the strong mouth.
• The collateral relations of Cynical Ethics to Politics and to Theology afford no scope for additional observations.
• By the cynical irony of fortune already noticed, where Milton would most impress us with his moral he becomes least poetical.
• Life was a cynical business, and youth could be brutal in pursuit of its aims, especially when the aim was passion, as it usually was.
• The immediate cause was the cynical and open criminal activity of an Englishman named James Stuart.
• He was a strange, gifted, most picturesque personality, no doubt a better man under his cynical exterior than he would ever suffer it to be thought.
• The sunset gun at the fort boomed a cynical welcome to the man four miles away, flying toward it for his life.
• He was extraordinarily shy with and cynical about women.
• What is the good of a peerage if it ends with your life? He was not without his vanities, though one of the most cynical men of his cynical period.

Similar words containing CYNIC without suffix al

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