All 8 Uses of
cynical
in
For Whom the Bell Tolls
- He had not liked Gaylord's, the hotel in Madrid the Russians had taken over when he first went there because it seemed too luxurious and the food was too good for a besieged city and the talk too cynical for a war.†
Chpt 18
- And the talk that he had thought of as cynicism when he had first heard it had turned out to be much too true.†
Chpt 18 *cynicism = believing that things usually go poorly and that selfish and insincere
- That had been the first big disillusion to him a few months back and he had started to be cynical to himself about it.†
Chpt 18
- Karkov was not cynical about those times either when he talked.†
Chpt 18
- Not even by a cynic like you," the puffy-eyed man said.†
Chpt 32cynic = someone who expects the worst -- especially of people (such as expecting them to be selfish and lie)
- We are caught between the ignorant and the cynical.†
Chpt 40
- It was the one thing he was never cynical about.†
Chpt 42
- Don't get cynical.†
Chpt 43