All 13 Uses
cynical
in
This Side of Paradise
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- Aside from a minute shyness, he felt that the old cynical kinship with his mother had not been one bit broken.†
Chpt 1.1
- ** THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE SLICKER From the scoffing superiority of sixth-form year and success Amory looked back with cynical wonder on his status of the year before.†
Chpt 1.1
- "Where'd you get the car?" demanded Amory cynically.†
Chpt 1.2
- Still, it's hard to be made a cynic at twenty.†
Chpt 1.2cynic = someone who expects the worst -- especially of people (such as expecting them to be selfish and lie)
- I'm a cynical idealist.†
Chpt 1.2
- He had fallen into a deep cynicism over what had crossed his path,
Chpt 1.4 *cynicism = believing that things usually go poorly and that selfish and insincere
- Amory finally prevailed, and Alec agreed to accept his face value in the presence of others if he was allowed rest periods when they were alone; so Amory "ran it out" at a great rate, bringing the most eccentric characters to dinner, wild-eyed grad students, preceptors with strange theories of God and government, to the cynical amazement of the supercilious Cottage Club.†
Chpt 1.4
- This sounds like a rather cynical paragraph, not at all the sort of thing that a middle-aged clergyman should write to a youth about to depart for the war; the only excuse is that the middle-aged clergyman is talking to himself.†
Chpt 1.4
- CECELIA: (Cynically) You're glad so you can get married and live on Long Island with the fast younger married set.†
Chpt 2.1
- He wrote a cynical story which featured his father's funeral and despatched it to a magazine, receiving in return a check for sixty dollars and a request for more of the same tone.†
Chpt 2.2
- Why, to be as clever, as interesting, and as brilliantly cynical as possible about every man, doctrine, book, or policy that is assigned you to deal with.†
Chpt 2.2
- "Happy families try to make people feel that way," said Tom cynically.†
Chpt 2.2
- He thought cynically how completely he was lacking in all human sympathy.†
Chpt 2.5
Definitions:
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(1)
(cynical) someone who expects the worst -- especially of people (such as expecting them to be selfish and lie)
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)