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Definitions of cynical in various dictionaries:
adj - believing the worst of human nature and motives
Scornful of the motives, virtue, or integrity of others: a cynical distrust of friendly strangers; a cynical view of the average voter’s intelligence.
Expressing or exhibiting scorn and bitter mockery: cynical laughter.
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| believing the worst of human nature and motives having a sneering disbelief in e.g. selflessness of others |
| Believing that people are motivated purely by self-interest distrustful of human sincerity or integrity. |
| Concerned only with one's own interests and typically disregarding accepted standards in order to achieve them. |
| believing that people are motivated purely by self-interest distrustful of human sincerity or integrity. |
| concerned only with one's own interests and typically disregarding accepted standards in order to achieve them. |
| believing that people are only interested in themselves and are not sincere: |
| used to say that someone's feelings or emotions are used to your own advantage: |
| not trusting or respecting the goodness of other people and their actions, but believing that people are interested only in themselves: |
| Believing or showing the belief that people are motivated chiefly by base or selfish concerns skeptical of the motives of others: a cynical dismissal of the politician's promise to reform the campaign finance system. |
| Selfishly or callously calculating: showed a cynical disregard for the safety of his troops in his efforts to advance his reputation. |
| Cynical might refer to |
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| Cynicism is an attitude or state of mind characterized by a general distrust of others' motives. A cynic may have a general lack of faith or hope in the human species or people motivated by ambition, desire, greed, gratification, materialism, goals, and opinions that a cynic perceives as vain, unobtainable, or ultimately meaningless and therefore deserving of ridicule or admonishment. A common misapplication of this attitude involves its attribution to individuals who emote well-thought-out expressions of skepticism. Such miscategorization may occur as the result of either inexperience or a belief system in which the innate goodness of man is considered an important tenet or even an irrefutable fact. Thus, contemporary usage incorporates both a form of jaded prudence (when misapplied) and realistic criticism or skepticism. The term originally derives from the ancient Greek philosophers, the Cynics, who rejected all conventions, whether of religion, manners, housing, dress, or decency, |