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  • He was cynical about politicians' promises on taxes.
  • I'm cynical enough to believe this is deliberate.
  • They were cynical about politics.
  • Is it cynical to suggest that the courts are being a trifle schizophrenic about the guidelines?
  • Cynical manipulation by the US of its power of veto in the UN Security Council is bringing increasing international condemnation.
  • We Greens find the government's attitude utterly cynical.
  • He said that smaller organizations appeared cynical about "key skills" as understood by learning providers.
  • Paul Watson has become deeply cynical of the politics within institutionalized broadcasting.
  • Cynical opportunism often hides the despair.
  • The collapse of the former Yugoslavia has been aided and abetted by the various western powers using incredibly cynical maneuvers.
  • Cynical disregard for the world's working class led him into the pact with Hitler.
  • You don't have a cynical bone in your body.
  • On the whole, his moral attitude is cynical, and he is inclined to regard self-interest as the best criterion.
  • Craft and wiliness are the qualities most generally attributed to her, coupled with the cynical praise that "in temporal matters she was very lucky."
  • The first three represent the spirit of their age by exhibiting the power of the Stoic philosophy as a moral, political and religious force; the last is the most cynical exponent of the depravity of the time.
  • Bergler led a wild and irregular life, and offended his friends and made many enemies by his dissipated habits and cynical disposition.
  • Equally sceptical with Montaigne, and decidedly more cynical, he is distinguished by a deeper and sterner tone.
  • Guicciardini was the product of a cynical and selfish age, and his life illustrated its sordid influences.
  • His original verse tends chiefly to show that with all his sarcastic and cynical wit his genius had also its tender, serious and sentimental side.
  • Mandeville's philosophy gave great offence at the time, and has always been stigmatized as false, cynical and degrading.
  • There is probably no foundation for this story except gossip, and the cynical malice of Catherine.
  • There is in truth a something crude, unsympathetic, cynical in his mental attitude toward human nature, for which, even after the lapse of more than three centuries, we find it difficult to make allowance.
  • When we turn from the man to the author, the decadence of the age and race that could develop a political philosophy so arid in its cynical despair of any good in human nature forces itself vividly upon our notice.
  • When unemployed in work or study he was not averse to the society of boon companions, gave himself readily to transient amours, and corresponded in a tone of cynical bad taste.
  • Indolence was supposed to be the keynote of his character - a refined indolence, not, however, without cleverness of a somewhat cynical and superior order.
  • The contrast is marked by the humour which seems to combine a cynical view of human folly with a deeply pathetic sense of the sadness and suffering of life.
  • With cynical insight he discovered that a great government cannot rest on a clique, however distinguished.
  • These and other actions indicate that William could show on occasion a cold and cynical ruthlessness.
  • There was something repulsive as well in the enthusiastic nationalism of Pitt as in the cynical nationalism of Frederick.
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