A Knight of the Order of St. John is still more cynical in his condemnation of the conquered enemy: "The greatest misfortune in this land is unemployment; factories are inactive and shops closed.

There was nothing cynical about him, in spite of his perplexities and discouragements.

"They have nobody left to love them now," exclaimed one of the youngest and hitherto most cynical of Parson Dorrance's colleagues, as he stood watching the grief-stricken creatures.

It may be that the world grows more cynical with age, unlike a man, whose cynical period ends with youth.

See?" He laughed, a laugh which was as cynical as Howard's.

He has a gracious and lovable personality, is kind of heart, and reveres all that is pure and good in life; yet he is almost cynical toward the world which uses him so well, and finds shams, deceptions, vanities everywhere, because he looks for them.

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

Holmes always seemed to me cynical to the general world; Lowell to have embodied the antique sentiment, "I am a man, and hold nothing human as indifferent to me."

He was too young to be cynical over it, and he was glad, on the whole, that he had come back.