Example sentences for: cynical

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

  • Pundits called Gingrich's comments absurd, undiplomatic, reckless, destructive, disloyal, McCarthyist, and a cynical play for campaign money from American Jews.

  • It's a historical truth, handed down from Mark Antony to Jesse Jackson to Earl Spencer, that celebrity death is a fabulous marketing opportunity, but Brinkley is not cynical about his prolific Kennedy comments.

  • What diminished Three Kings for me was that at heart it was a "conversion" melodrama in which a cynical, amoral, Bogartish hero finally can't live with himself in the face of injustice and opts to "do the right thing" at considerable personal cost.

  • His underlying purpose seems more cynical: to get his shoddy little book stocked in both the political and self-help sections.

  • It makes them part of the great Washington game, and it gives them something to act cynical and world-weary about.


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