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• I don't appreciate your particular brand of cynicism.From the entry particular
• The closing years of "Old Labour" in Britain were years laced with corruption, cynicism, emollience, and drift.2010, Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22: A Memoir, Signal, published 2011, →ISBN, page 202. From the entry emollience
• They use cynicism to protect themselves from the terrors of the job.1999 April 22, Roger Ebert, "Pushing Tin" (film review), Chicago Sun Times (retrieved 20 Oct 2011). From the entry aluminum shower
• And two points reflect the cynicism at the core of this fatsploitation flick.1995 February 17, George Meyer, “'Heavyweights' makes light of weighty issues”, in Sarasota Herald-Tribune. From the entry fatsploitation
• No adolescent can achieve disbelief in the stork without an eruption of young oaths and cynicisms.1927, Gilbert W. Gabriel, “Male, Female and American Drama”, in Vanity Fair, volume 27, number 4, page 73. From the entry disbelief
• Femonationalism thus operates from a place of cynicism, presenting itself as liberating Muslim women while doing the exact opposite.2017, Edna Bonhomme, "The Disturbing Rise of ‘Femonationalism", The Nation, 7 May 2019. From the entry femonationalism
• This cynicism may lead to an increased number of job actions and deviance, such as the "blue flu" or "cooping."2012, Jeffrey Ian Ross, Policing Issues: Challenges and Controversies, Sudbury, Mass.: Jones & Bartlett Learning, →ISBN, page 66. From the entry coop
• Cynicism is often contrasted with "Timonism" (cf.1988 January, Paul Ollswang, "Cynicism: A Series of Cartoons on a Philosophical Theme", page B at official site; repr. in The Best Comics…. From the entry Timonism
• Sampson and Bartusch measure legal cynicism using five variables designed to assess general beliefs about the legitimacy of law and social norms.2006, James W. Burfeind, Juvenile Delinquency: An Integrated Approach, page 488. From the entry legal cynicism
• But I noted with some cynicism that the exhibit failed to include any of the numerous publications suppressed by institutions of the feminist community.1984 December 22, Gayle Rubin, “Censored: Anti-Porn Laws And Women's Liberation”, in Gay Community News, volume 12, number 23, page 8. From the entry neatly
• But Pope Brock plays him in such a one-note key of gulping and spitting and snickering cynicism that the spectacle becomes numbing.1971 March 13, Michael Sragow, “Theatre: Look Back in Anger Tonight at the Loeb Ex”, in Harvard Crimson, retrieved 25 Jul 2009. From the entry one-note
• The brief, a motion for summary judgment in a case stemming from Fox’s egregiously false claims of Dominion-abetted election fraud, offers a portrait of extravagant cynicism.2023 February 17, Michelle Goldberg, “What Fox News Says When You’re Not Listening”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry abet
• By examining how Coetzee turns the words 'mere' and 'merely' in enantiosemes, I will demonstrate how his literary cynicism troubles stylistic gestures towards the difference between surface and depth.2017, Arthur Rose, “Introduction”, in Literary Cynics: Borges, Beckett, Coetzee, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, pages 27-28. From the entry enantioseme
• Also a big hand for Silver Linings Playbook, an exuberant modern screwball comedy we had, in an unseemly fit of cynicism, deemed "too entertaining" for Academy voters.2013 January 11, Tom Shone, The Guardian. From the entry hand
• Wilder's cynicism is most evident in his cop-out, boy-gets-girl ending, which seems quite capable of producing an afterstory identical to the film we have just seen.2008, Barry Keith Grant, American Cinema of the 1960s. From the entry afterstory
• Substituting something that's trivial-but-noisily-immediate for something that's virtuous — even smally virtuous, like a game we play or ponder — breeds an ugly cynicism about virtue itself.2007 October 28, Richard Ford, “The Noise Is Killing Me”, in New York Times. From the entry smally
• But there is a counterside to promotional hyperbole, for exaggerated promises that dovetail with people's hopes and expectations open the way to cynicism should promises falter or fail.1998, William D. Foulkes, Shirley V. Hodgson, Inherited Susceptibility to Cancer, page 51. From the entry counterside
• On the other hand, his engaging style and often salutary cynicism can be fully appreciated only if one has some familiarity with the dreary eulogizings written by his predecessors.1968, Catholic World, volume 207, page 237. From the entry eulogizing

Meaning of cynicism

1. noun A distrustful attitude.
2. noun An emotion of jaded negativity, or a general distrust of the integrity or professed motives of others, due to belief that people are motivated solely by disguised self-interest.
3. noun A scornfully pessimistic comment or act.

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How do you use cynicism in a sentence?

Cynicism is used as a noun. For example: “I don't appreciate your particular brand of cynicism.”

What is a short sentence with cynicism?

“Cynicism is often contrasted with "Timonism" (cf.”

What does cynicism mean?

Cynicism means a distrustful attitude.