0 a person who believes that people are only interested in themselves and are not sincere: --
A cynic might say that the government has only taken this measure because it is concerned about its declining popularity.
I'm too much of a cynic to believe that he'll keep his promise.
1 a person who believes that other people are interested only in themselves and therefore doubts that they can be good --
I know that that seems outrageously ambitious—cynics might even say naive, but they are wrong.
Contrary to what some cynics thought, there has been no rush to sell the land.
Nothing would silence the cynics more quickly than that.
I suppose that the cynic may say that the farmer now has an electrically heated blanket on his feather bed!
Some cynics have the impression that it issues circulars and that its people are busy attending conferences and giving various kinds of counsel.
The cynics nowadays say that people have very little emotion above their stomachs.
There were the cynics, the enthusiasts and the realists.
Some cynics, when we first set up this scheme, said that we were merely teaching potential burglars to be more athletic.
