All 7 Uses
cynical
in
This Lullaby, by Sarah Dessen
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- Jennifer Anne rolled her eyes, clearly offended at sharing a table with a bunch of peons and cynics.†
Chpt 4cynics = people who expect the worst -- especially of people (such as expecting them to be selfish and lie)
- All these years Chris was the only one who'd ever shared my sick, cynical view on love.†
Chpt 6 *
- Could be I was too cynical.†
Chpt 9
- "Don't let your mother's history make you a cynic, Remy," she said softly.†
Chpt 13cynic = someone who expects the worst -- especially of people (such as expecting them to be selfish and lie)
- I could only imagine how Jennifer Anne, who'd found my cynicism about this marriage to be completely abhorrent, would react to this latest family news.†
Chpt 16cynicism = believing that things usually go poorly and that selfish and insincere
- In my typical cynical fashion, I'd had no doubt we would need it again, and I was right.†
Chpt 16
- He'd always had that fearless optimism that made cynics like me squirm.†
Chpt 16cynics = people who expect the worst -- especially of people (such as expecting them to be selfish and lie)
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)