Cynics is valid Scrabble Word

Is cynics a scrabble word?
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6 letters word
13 points in Scrabble
15 points in WWF

Definitions for CYNICS in dictionary:

NOUN:

CYNIC, someone who takes a pessimistic view of human motives and actions
a person who believes that people are motivated purely by self-interest rather than acting for honourable or unselfish reasons
a person who questions whether something will happen or whether it is worthwhile
a member of a school of ancient Greek philosophers founded by Antisthenes, marked by an ostentatious contempt for ease and pleasure. The movement flourished in the 3rd century BC and revived in the 1st century AD.

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

a cynical person

Words related to CYNICS

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How to use CYNICS in a sentence

The mystery which surrounds the orders is extraordinary, and the secret has been well kept, a fact which cynics attribute to the exclusion of ladies from the secret circle.
And for them who are neither partisans, nor enthusiasts, nor theorists, nor cynics, there are some doubts not readily to be solved.
Like most men who have seen much of the world, they had ceased to be cynics.
The most confirmed of cynics ceases to be a cynic while he reads these plays.
Women who are utter mystics in their creed are utter cynics in their criticism.
Zeno went back for his view of the physical world to Heraclitus, and for his ethics to the Cynics.
Cynics do not look for heroes or heroines among such as these.
That was the import of the message preached by the Cynics and the Stoics, that the truly wise man is Lord, Messenger of God, and God upon the earth.
The Chinese crackers of the frivolous cynics fail to excite us after the dynamite of the serious and aspiring cynic.
Only cynics hold that to be the chief reason why we approach the millennium so slowly, and cynics are usually very ill-informed persons.

Let us take care to note that this differs completely from another sort of feeling which cold-blooded cynics are apt to confuse it with.
He is the most melancholy of cynics in the kingdom of death.
Both ANTISTHENES, the founder of the Cynics, and ARISTIPPUS, the founder of the Cyrenaics, were disciples of Sokrates.
The Cynics appear to have been inclined to communism among themselves, which was doubtless easy with their views as to the wants of life.
Neither the Cynics nor the Cyrenaics made any profession of generous or disinterested impulses.
Let us leave the cynics to their little pleasantries, and make our appeal to people who think.
But if love is not, as the cynics believe, all moonshine, it can at least make its own light.
There are cynics and sentimentalists who are the despair of all who are seriously working for better citizenship.
But the chances are that the men to whom our stranger was listening were neither cynics nor sentimentalists, but idealists who had the American temperament.

Similar words containing CYNIC without suffix s

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