Example sentences for: cynically

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

  • It would be wrong to say they have cynically repackaged what they affect to deplore.

  • Also absent is comment on the borrowing of terms as dysphemisms (or as euphemisms): for example, gurry is a neutral term for the gut(s) (or, if you prefer, entrails) of an eviscerated fish, but it becomes cynically dysphemistic when used, as it is in medical slang, to refer to human organs or parts removed in surgery.

  • It's true that Democrats cynically oversimplified Quayle's blunders.

  • A bit more cynically, you might mention that these same editors and writers hoped the scoop would bring them attention.

  • Thomas critics say he cynically played the race card by accusing his opponents of conspiring to bring down an uppity black man.


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