Example Sentences

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The girls' faces are fresh and untouched by the indulgences and cynicisms of city life.

From BBC • Nov. 23, 2014

Gold will be accused of twin cynicisms – of jumping on the Olympics bandwagon and of manipulating its audience's emotions.

From The Guardian • Jun. 2, 2012

And golfers are as prone as the police to develop fatalistic cynicisms about their fellow men.

From Time Magazine Archive

The sly digressions of a slanting bishop, the rapid cynicisms of a threatened queen, the stormy contraditions of the agile castles—these provided dialect in which the finest abstractions could be stated.

From Time Magazine Archive

He was about to give vent to one of his coldest cynicisms, when Nick Devereux looked over from the card table and claimed him.

From The Law-Breakers by Cullum, Ridgwell