0 not believing that good things can happen -- kynisk
1 inclined to believe the worst, especially about people -- kynisk
a cynical attitude.
The basic weaknesses in the political system which provided the opportunities for her cynical action have yet to be scrutinized.
The cynical will not take this sales talk too seriously.
But love as fate, as fatality, cynical, innocent, cruel, - and thus true to nature!
One possible explanation might be that the relatively more affluent households are more cynical about compliance.
This was a colossal failure, where cynical manipulation, massive corruption, and state terror derailed an expensive attempt to impose ' democracy ' from above.
A number of deponents saw his charitable countenance as a cynical attempt at self-preservation.
Transforming 'angry young men' into embittered, cynical 'couch-potatoes'.
The exchange involved will indeed be a cynical exercise but it will be, nonetheless, a successful one.
