Example sentences for: cynical

How can you use “cynical” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Anyway, Bradley's answer was not really honest, even in this cynical sense.

  • The completely cynical spin: Disney-Miramax's publicity campaign for Shakespeare beat DreamWorks-Paramount's publicity campaign for Private Ryan . The ceremony's political controversy was a lifetime achievement award for Elia Kazan, a director revered for his films but ostracized by much of Hollywood for outing fellow Communists during the McCarthy era.

  • Even on its own terms this analysis is startlingly cynical.

  • The completely cynical NATO spin: The Serbs need the refugees as human shields.

  • It is easy to be cynical on this subject and, at times, even to try to be funny, as in referring to DAM `Mothers Against Dyslexia' (as does Dal Yoo, in an article elsewhere in this issue).


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