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Definition
someone who expects the worst — especially of people (such as expecting them to be selfish and lie)
- And the talk that he had thought of as cynicism when he had first heard it had turned out to be much too true.Chapter 18 (16% in)
- 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.Chapter 18 (15% in)
- That had been the first big disillusion to him a few months back and he had started to be cynical to himself about it.Chapter 18 (18% in)
- Karkov was not cynical about those times either when he talked.Chapter 18 (54% in)
- Not even by a cynic like you," the puffy-eyed man said.Chapter 32 (59% in)
- We are caught between the ignorant and the cynical.Chapter 40 (44% in)
- It was the one thing he was never cynical about.Chapter 42 (77% in)
- Don't get cynical.Chapter 43 (86% in)
There are no more uses of "cynical" in For Whom the Bell Tolls.
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