CYNICISM in a Sentence

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46 example sentences for CYNICISM, such as:

1. I hope I don't sound unduly cynical.
2. I think she takes a rather cynical view of men.
3. With that cynical outlook, he doesn't trust anyone.
4. The cynicism, the cynicism of my words overwhelmed her.
5. She was cynical about the joys of a simple laborious life.

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cynicism
 n.  a scornfully or jadedly negative comment or act
Classic Sentence: (35 in 3 pages)
1  "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 Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
2  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 Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVIII
3  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 Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LII
4  Just as its cynicism was beginning to rouse her village-dulled frivolity, it was over.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
5  She did not quite understand it herself; did not know that in the Bjornstams she found her friends, her club, her sympathy and her ration of blessed cynicism.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
6  But not so much as her cynicism in the long dialogue with her lover which followed.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3. Lena Lingard: III
7  He was not born an idealist, and his fastidiously dry and sensuous soul, with its French tinge of cynicism was not capable of dreaming.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
8  The cynicism, the cynicism of my words overwhelmed her.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: IX
9  The judges themselves appeared to be stupefied, and the jury manifested tokens of disgust for cynicism so unexpected in a man of fashion.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 110. The Indictment.
10  He did not love his grandfather much, as the latter's gayety and cynicism repelled him, and his feelings towards his father were gloomy.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III—REQUIESCANT
11  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 Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
12  His eyes waited on her words, cynical amusement in them, and she could not go on.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
13  He had changed from her friend to a cynical man in overalls.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
14  She was cynical about the joys of a simple laborious life.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
15  The captain introduced her to the secretary of a congressman, a cynical young widow with many acquaintances in the navy.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
Example Sentence:
1  Without wisdom, cynicism is only another way of being stupid.
2  With that cynical outlook, he doesn't trust anyone.
3  I think she takes a rather cynical view of men.
4  Christmas should be a time of excitement and wonder, not a cynical marketing ploy.
5  It was a strange conjunction — the prim serious young Queen and the elderly, cynical Whig.
6  I hope I don't sound unduly cynical.
7  What I find sad, and cynical, is that this guy is essentially saying things will not be better by 2012.
8  Sophisticated and cynical, Jack could not believe Jill was as artless and naive as she appeared to be.
9  The rich youth cynically declared that the panacea for all speeding tickets was a big enough bribe.
10  They cynically tried to trade off a reduction in the slaughter of dolphins against a resumption of commercial whaling.
11  Some cynics say that sport is a mere instrument of capitalist domination.