cynical

I actually, despite being very cynical, I actually have a much more optimistic view of it.

In Moscow, many people have grown cynical about the money evaporating in their pockets.

“I hate to be cynical about it, but I think some of the films made are made very cynically,” she says.

A cynical old Chicago lawyer once described this as the theory that “out of the clash of lies, truth will emerge.”

Klein is simultaneously not only cynical about political leaders, but dismissive of them.

At its worst, The Stranger merely recycles the biases, conventional wisdom, and cynical bitterness of inside-the-beltway habitués.

Death, to do him justice, he had met with none of the cowardice he had vaunted, and consistently with his arid cynical soul.

There was a quiet, cynical smile on his face as he sat there beating a tattoo on his leggings with a hickory twig.

That gratitude is the expectation of favors to come was, in the case of Aristide, a cynical and inapplicable proposition.

Something seemed to puzzle him, for he was frowning, but by and by the old cynical smile came back.

His smile was cynical, and suggested a kind of contemptuous pity for the person to whom he spoke.