602 examples of cynical in sentences

Hexford's mouth had settled into a stiff, straight line and the other man's wore a cynical smile I did not like.

I heard his slow, cynical voice interrupting me, and felt her hand drop from my arm.

The means for carrying on the gigantic machinery of centralized administration, and for supporting the court in its follies, were wrung from the groaning peasantry with a cynical indifference like that with which tribute is extorted by barbaric chieftains from a conquered enemy.

He spoke jerkily, as stout men do when they ride, and when he had laughed his good-natured, half-cynical laugh, he closed his lips beneath a huge gray mustache.

He was a long-limbed young Englishman, whose cynical gray eyes, and thin face tinged rather sallow and Oriental, bespoke a reckless good humor.

Eh, Heywood?" "Rather!" drawled Rudolph's friend, with an alacrity that seemed half cynical, half enigmatic.

The sallow face and cynical gray eyes lighted, for the first time, with something like enthusiasm.

It has given a new lease to the political philosophy of Machiavelli; and made of every budding statesman and historian a solemn or a cynical defender of the gospel of force.

But in moderation, and with the feelings of my little pet here, I should be cynical, indeed, to object.

He started to make a cynical reply.

A short, half-cynical laugh with "Oh, maybe I'll go set on the porch an' listen to th' music!" was the answer.

In action and in style there is nothing more cynical and more repulsive than the Jesuit police, when they unveil their secret treasures.

Such mirth as haunted his rebellious lips was rather cynical than genial.

It is a shocking view to take of so genial a function: cynical, indelicate, and finally unforgivable by reason of its very accuracy.

" Heraclitus was, however, an obscure writer, and moreover cynical and arrogant.

Victor, on the other hand, facing both Karslake and the door, unquestionably saw Sofia, but pretended not to, and had his say out with Karslake in a manner bitterly cynical.

But all were alike cynical, cold, unbelieving, and even insulting.

He could, indeed, in a mock-cynical humour, write of what a man must do 'if he thinks it worth while to stand well with others:' but in himself there was nothing of the cynic, and to stand well with others was to his genial nature a source of genuine and undisguised gratification.

Anything more selfish or cynical cannot be conceived, and those who call vile acts by their plain names will not feel inclined to become Sulla's apologists.

The editor told me, with that nameless look of the cynical scandalmonger, that if I wanted to learn anything about Huntington

The University of Paris, under the direction of Rollin, was developing the intelligence and lively powers of burgessdom; and Montesquieu, as yet full young, was shooting his missiles in the Lettres persanes at the men and the things of his country with an almost cynical freedom, which was, as it were, the alarum and prelude of all the liberties which he scarcely dared to claim, but of which he already let a glimpse be seen.

An insolent and a cynical maxim of brute force, which conquerors have put in practice at all times, without daring to set it up as a principle.

Belgium stared its inhospitality, its contempt, its cynical drolleries at the invader.

I grew fainthearted, discouraged, cynical, bitter.

The cry wrung from him by his grief anticipates the cynical philosophy of later pastorals.

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