All 9 Uses of
cynical
in
Gone with the Wind
- There was a cool recklessness in his face and a cynical humor in his mouth as he smiled at her, and Scarlett caught her breath.†
Chpt 1.6 *
- He is a cynic.†
Chpt 1.6cynic = someone who expects the worst -- especially of people (such as expecting them to be selfish and lie)
- It would have been—well, disrespectful to—it would have seemed as if I hadn't lov—" His eyes waited on her words, cynical amusement in them, and she could not go on.†
Chpt 2.9
- We should have paid heed to cynics like Butler who knew, instead of statesmen who felt—and talked.†
Chpt 2.11cynics = people who expect the worst -- especially of people (such as expecting them to be selfish and lie)
- He's a gentleman," said Rhett, and Scarlett wondered how it was possible to convey such cynicism and contempt in that one honorable word.†
Chpt 2.16cynicism = believing that things usually go poorly and that selfish and insincere
- He could tell, with apparent sincerity and approval, stories of courage and honor and virtue and love in the odd places he had been, and follow them with ribald stories of coldest cynicism.†
Chpt 5.48
- There was an orgy of grabbing and over all there was a cold cynicism about open theft in high places that was chilling to contemplate.†
Chpt 5.52
- What was that old saying, that cynical saying?†
Chpt 5.53
- Even the cynical coolness of the war days, the drunken madness that drove him the night he carried her up the stairs, his hard fingers bruising her body, or the barbed drawling words that she now realized had covered a bitter love.†
Chpt 5.63