249 examples of cynic in sentences

He was not a brute or a cynic.

[person who doubts] doubter, skeptic, cynic.; unbeliever &c 487.

unbeliever, skeptic, cynic; misbeliever.1, pyrrhonist; heretic &c (heterodox) 984.

He fought his paper single-handed; trusting no one, for he was something of a cynic; up early and down late, for he was nothing of a sluggard; daily earwigging influential men, for he was a master of ingratiation.

Let me live in a house by the side of the road, Where the race of men go by The men who are good and the men who are bad, As good and as bad as I. I would not sit in the scorner's seat, Or hurl the cynic's ban; Let me live in a house by the side of the road And be a friend to man.

Then why should I sit in the scorner's seat Or hurl the cynic's ban? Let me live in my house by the side of the road And be a friend to man.

By the cynic, the sad, the fallen, Who had no strength for the strife, The world's highway is cumbered to-day, They make up the sum of life.

The old cynic was found floating, scarred belly upwards, on the surface of the water.

"Cynic" remarks that it is impossible for the German scientists to defeat the WOLFF wireless at inventions.

Reading between the lines of his speech a cynic could only infer that the Upper House, as at present constituted, is such a useless and superfluous assembly that it does not much matter who gets into it or by what venal ladder he climbs.

"Old memories are spectres that do seem to chase the soul out of the world,"an old quotation which may be admitted without embracing the metaphysical paradox, that "subjective thought is the poison of life," or conceding the sharp sneer of the cynic "Know, ye who for your pleasures gape, Man's life at best is but a scrape.

CYNIC TUB (The), Diog'enês, the Cynic philosopher lived in a tub, and it is to this fact that illusion is made in the line: [They] fetch their doctrines from the Cynic tub.

CYNIC TUB (The), Diog'enês, the Cynic philosopher lived in a tub, and it is to this fact that illusion is made in the line: [They] fetch their doctrines from the Cynic tub.

CYNIC TUB (The), Diog'enês, the Cynic philosopher lived in a tub, and it is to this fact that illusion is made in the line: [They] fetch their doctrines from the Cynic tub.

DIOG'ENES, Greek cynic, who carried a lantern at noon, to search for an honest man.

DIOG'ENES (4 syl.), the negro slave of the cynic philosopher Michael Agelestês (4 syl.).Sir W. Scott, Count Robert of Paris (time, Rufus).

Dog (The), Diogenes the cynic (B.C. 412-323).

I needed some one to help me over the rough spots in life, and finding them not, at the age of sixteen I was as rank a cynic and infidel as could be found in three days' march.

"No, she would not die, but would grow into a cynic and sceptic, which is the worst of fates.

" "What a little cynic!

No cynic was present to intimate that the animal would instantly know any giver of bologna.

Old as he was, and prone to cynic indifference as he had shown himself, he was affected almost like a young girl.

And this is the best known answer to the sneer of the cynic.

In spite of all this, however, Mikhalevich had not lost courage, but kept on his way leading the life of a cynic, an idealist, and a poet; fervently caring for, and troubling himself about, the destinies of humanity and his special vocation in lifeand giving very little heed to the question whether or no he would die of starvation.

"Cynic," said Lavretsky, correcting him.

249 examples of  cynic  in sentences