0 in a way that shows you believe that people are only interested in themselves and are not sincere:
The assistants greeted her by name and with beaming smiles. "They're obviously on commission," Tessa thought cynically.
"He probably met someone else on the flight over here," Mike said cynically.
He is cynically manipulating public fears in an attempt to achieve his political ends.
They were angry at the callous disregard for life cynically displayed by the federal forces.
Sexton cynically saw Plath's suicide as "a great career move".
The prime minister was accused of cynically using his newborn son to manipulate the public.
This isn't just another liberal trying cynically to inject race into the policy debate.
