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Six example sentences with cynical, each labelled with its topic.
The narrator is so cynical that when a stranger returns his wallet intact, he spends a chapter hunting for the angle.
Literature
A cynical reading of charity holds that every donor is buying reputation, which the seminar spent an afternoon trying to disprove.
Philosophy
Years of reorganizations left the floor staff cynical, so the new mission statement was read aloud in the canteen with laughter.
Business
Voters grew cynical after the third broken promise, assuming every pledge was written for the cameras.
Politics
The detective is cynical to the bone, treating every witness's tears as an act until proven otherwise.
Movies
Cynical traders assume every company update hides bad news, and sell before reading past the headline.
Finance
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