Example sentences for: cynically

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

  • 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.

  • 3) Starr is cynically bringing the indictment now to inject the Willey story into Clinton's Senate trial.

  • This spring, the government bolstered the myth of financial privacy by cynically folding its KYC hand when its regulatory methods and practices were noisily scrutinized.

  • ' An obviously ineffectual operation or dire predicament, cynically anticipated because typical; perfect opposite of OK.

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


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