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cynical
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I'm not being cynical.†
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And that was the strangeness for me, that someone like Janice, with all her attendant cynicism and ambition, could believe in another person so singularly, that she could shelter her candidate, her man for office, and step in front of angry bullets shot from his opponents or the press.†

cynicism = believing that things usually go poorly and that selfish and insincere
But that sounds too cynical of him, which would he all wrong.†
I had read numerous editorials in the last few months that had questioned De Roos' interest in genuinely improving the city, suggesting that he had grown comfortable and cynical and out of touch with his job, being now in his second term.†
No one says those things cynically of you.†
He has sung whole love songs to the cynical crowds, told tall stories of courage and honor, doing all this without any mythic display, without savvy, almost embarrassing the urban throng.†

Definitions:

(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)