Now, that is cynical. And Southerners usually aren't that cynical.

I resent your cynical remarks.

And the cynical majority said,

She is very cynical about life.

I call that the cynical design.

He smiled a cynical smile at me.

He smiled a cynical smile at me.

He always makes cynical remarks to me.

Then take some refugees. You're so cynical.

It's hard growing up with a cynical father.

It is a very cynical place out there sometimes.

And the cynical majority said, We don't believe you.

Our knowledge has made us cynical, our cleverness hard and unkind.

It's hard to talk if you're going to be so cynical.

We feel overcome, we feel overwhelmed, we feel anxious, maybe depressed, frustrated or cynical.

Now, there is a more cynical argument, that some people have made, and I think it's reasonable to give that due time, and one of the cynical arguments, or the more cynical arguments, is that the U.S. had close financial and trade ties to Britain, not to mention cultural ties, ...financial ties to... ...the British.

And I thought they were being cynical, but it turns out I was wrong they weren't.

And then a more cynical view of why the U.S. entered the war, and this is true of probably most wars, is that there's a lot of

I was taking a class of his, and he was just like, this is an overeager student, which we don't normally get in the United States, because everyone else is cynical and jaded.

We can take the easier road, the more cynical road, which is a road based on sometimes dreams of a past that never really was, a fear of each other, distancing and blame.

The one, we can call it the cynical design, that means the design invented by Raymond Loewy in the '50s, who said, what is ugly is a bad sale, la laideur se vend mal, which is terrible.

Politics has come to resemble a cynical team game played by politicians, while the public has been pushed aside as if sitting on the seats of a stadium in which passion for politics is gradually making room for blindness and desperation.

And behind this powerful disagreement between how to close that gap, there's the worst kind of cynical party politics, the worst kind of insider baseball, lobbying, all of that stuff, but there's also this powerfully interesting, respectful disagreement between two fundamentally different economic philosophies.

And then we turn the page of the magazine, and we see this now this is the page the FDA requires pharmaceutical companies to put into their ads, or to follow their ads, and to me, this is one of the most cynical exercises in medicine.

But these conferences are going on, and I know people get skeptical and cynical about the big global summits and the promises and their never being kept, but actually, the bits that are, are making a difference, and what the politicians need is more permission from the public.

It has gotten to the point where, you know, within advertising or within the movie industry, happy has gotten such a bad reputation that if you actually want to do something with the subject and still appear authentic, you almost would have to, you know, do it from a cynical point of view.