All 10 Uses of
cynical
in
The Brothers Karamazov
- There is no moral depravity, no real corrupt inner cynicism in it, but there is the appearance of it, and it is often looked upon among them as something refined, subtle, daring, and worthy of imitation.†
Chpt 1 *
- And don't accuse us of being 'frigid, cynical, scoffing people,' who are incapable of believing in the generous impulses of your heart….†
Chpt 9
- Is it our cynicism, is it the premature exhaustion of intellect and imagination in a society that is sinking into decay, in spite of its youth?†
Chpt 12
- Now we are either horrified or pretend to be horrified, though we really gloat over the spectacle, and love strong and eccentric sensations which tickle our cynical, pampered idleness.†
Chpt 12
- His abject and servile characteristics disappeared, his malicious and sarcastic cynicism was all that remained.†
Chpt 12
- Alas! many of them only differ in not openly professing such cynicism, for they are better educated, more cultured, but their philosophy is essentially the same as his.†
Chpt 12
- We've seen to-day in this court that there are still good impulses in his young heart, that family feeling has not been destroyed in him by lack of faith and cynicism, which have come to him rather by inheritance than by the exercise of independent thought.†
Chpt 12
- He seems to me to have betrayed unconsciously, and so early, that timid despair which leads so many in our unhappy society, who dread cynicism and its corrupting influences, and mistakenly attribute all the mischief to European enlightenment, to return to their 'native soil,' as they say, to the bosom, so to speak, of their mother earth, like frightened children, yearning to fall asleep on the withered bosom of their decrepit mother, and to sleep there for ever, only to escape the…†
Chpt 12
- It was not the money, but the fact that this money was used with such revolting cynicism to ruin his happiness!†
Chpt 12
- He was met by cynical taunts, suspicions and wrangling about money.†
Chpt 12
Definition:
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(cynical) someone who expects the worst -- especially of people (such as expecting them to be selfish and lie)