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Definition
someone who expects the worst — especially of people (such as expecting them to be selfish and lie)
- This peculiar linking-together of opposites — knowledge with ignorance, cynicism with fanaticism-is one of the chief distinguishing marks of Oceanic society.p. 216.2
There are no more uses of "cynical" in 1984 by Orwell.
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