All 17 Uses
cynical
in
Outlander
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- We beg that Castle Leoch might offer this lady refuge until"—he paused, and a cynical smile twisted his mouth—"her English connections may be apprised of her whereabouts and due provision made for her safe transport."†
p. 80.2
- Despite the occasional teasing, I found her a pleasant companion, with a ready wit and a cheerful, if cynical, outlook on life.†
p. 118.6
- I enjoyed Geilie's company immensely; she had a wry-tongued, cynical viewpoint that was a refreshing contrast to the sweet, shy clanswomen at the castle, and clearly she had been well educated, for a woman in a small village.†
p. 121.2
- I saw his glance flicker to the oatstraws in my own hair, and a cynical grin split his face.†
p. 132.6
- I said, a little cynically.†
p. 203.4 *
- "Ha," she said cynically.†
p. 326.7
- Alec snorted cynically.†
p. 346.9
- "Well," he began, "it's true enough what Ned says; His Grace had something of an eye for me, though being the innocent I was at sixteen—" Here he was interrupted by a number of cynical remarks, and raised his voice to go on.†
p. 355.1
- Then the lines of her face relaxed into their normal expression of half-amused cynicism.†
p. 363.7cynicism = believing that things usually go poorly and that selfish and insincere
- The cynical amusement in her voice made me flush, grateful for the darkness.†
p. 384.7
- All, without exception, swore that the charms had worked—an enviable record for a general practitioner, I thought cynically.†
p. 389.3
- This, I thought cynically, trying to still my panic, was surely where the dashing young hero was meant to ride through the crowd, beating back the cringing townspeople and scooping the fainting heroine up onto his saddle.†
p. 391.1
- Jamie eyed his small namesake cynically.†
p. 456.5
- One of the girls, I thought cynically.†
p. 475.4
- "A lot of good they'd get from it," she answered cynically, eyeing his scrawny frame.†
p. 476.2
- To my cynical eyes, it didn't look it.†
p. 486.1
- I paused, recalling Uncle Lambert's voracious appetite for knowledge, and that cheerfully objective cynicism that regarded all religion merely as one of the earmarks by which a culture could be cataloged.†
p. 575.4cynicism = 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)