CYNICAL in Classic Quotes

Simple words can express big ideas - learn how great writers to make beautiful sentences with common words.
Quotes from Gone With The Wind by Margaret Mitche
Free Online Vocabulary Test
K12, SAT, GRE, IELTS, TOEFL
 Search Panel
Word:
You may input your word or phrase.
Author:
Book:
 
Stems:
If search object is a contraction or phrase, it'll be ignored.
Sort by:
Each search starts from the first page. Its result is limited to the first 17 sentences. If you upgrade to a VIP account, you will see up to 500 sentences for one search.
Common Search Words
 Current Search - cynical in Gone With The Wind
1  His eyes waited on her words, cynical amusement in them, and she could not go on.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IX
2  We should have paid heed to cynics like Butler who knew, instead of statesmen who felt--and talked.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XI
3  There was a cool recklessness in his face and a cynical humor in his mouth as he smiled at her, and Scarlett caught her breath.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VI
4  There was an orgy of grabbing and over all there was a cold cynicism about open theft in high places that was chilling to contemplate.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER LII
5  "He's a gentleman," said Rhett, and Scarlett wondered how it was possible to convey such cynicism and contempt in that one honorable word.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVI
6  He could tell, with apparent sincerity and approval, stories of courage and honor and virtue and love in the odd places he had been, and follow them with ribald stories of coldest cynicism.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XLVIII
7  Even the cynical coolness of the war days, the drunken madness that drove him the night he carried her up the stairs, his hard fingers bruising her body, or the barbed drawling words that she now realized had covered a bitter love.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER LXIII