Both Uses
cynical
in
Interview with the Vampire
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- I had not been cynical for one moment about the existence of God.†
Part 1 *
- 'They reflect the age in cynicism which cannot comprehend the death of possibilities, fatuous sophisticated indulgence in the parody of the miraculous, decadence whose last refuge is self-ridicule, a mannered helplessness.†
Part 3cynicism = believing that things usually go poorly and that selfish and insincere
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)