0 a person who believes that people are only interested in themselves and are not sincere:
I'm too much of a cynic to believe that he'll keep his promise.
A cynic might say that the government has only taken this measure because it is concerned about its declining popularity.
1 a person who believes that other people are interested only in themselves and therefore doubts that they can be good
Not a book to recommend to the cynic.
This willingness to condemn the generalised 'other', while apparently condoning one's own family members, might appear to the cynic as mere hypocrisy.
Indeed, a cynic like myself would argue that community regeneration is really about co-option and the imposition of the culture and objectives of the dominant 'partners'.
A cynic might argue that if we concentrate research on looking for social cohesion and active human agency, then that is what we are most likely to find.
Paul either did not know these stories, or felt that they were not important (cynics argue that they had not yet been 'invented').
Such cynics saw honour as a matter of rank and preferment, to be gained by noisy shows of loyalty and the traditional swaggering bravado of the braggart soldier.
The soldiers have been taught to be cynics by the confidence tricks of past pay rises.
Some cynics, when we first set up this scheme, said that we were merely teaching potential burglars to be more athletic.
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