Definitions from Wiktionary (Cynical)
▸ adjective: Of or relating to the belief that human actions are motivated only or primarily by base desires or selfishness.
▸ adjective: Skeptical of the integrity, sincerity, or motives of others.
▸ adjective: Bitterly or jadedly distrustful or contemptuous; mocking.
▸ adjective: Showing contempt for accepted moral standards by one's actions.
▸ adjective: (medicine, rare) Like the actions of a snarling dog, especially in reference to facial nerve paralysis.
▸ adjective: Of or relating to the Cynics, a sect of Ancient Greek philosophers who believed virtue to be the only good and self-control to be the only means of achieving virtue.
Cynical Theories,
Critique of Cynical Reason,
opposite of cynical,
scornfully cynical,
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▸ adjective: Of or relating to the belief that human actions are motivated only or primarily by base desires or selfishness.
▸ adjective: Skeptical of the integrity, sincerity, or motives of others.
▸ adjective: Bitterly or jadedly distrustful or contemptuous; mocking.
▸ adjective: Showing contempt for accepted moral standards by one's actions.
▸ adjective: (medicine, rare) Like the actions of a snarling dog, especially in reference to facial nerve paralysis.
▸ adjective: Of or relating to the Cynics, a sect of Ancient Greek philosophers who believed virtue to be the only good and self-control to be the only means of achieving virtue.
Similar:
distrustful,
misanthropic,
misanthropical,
selfish,
expedient,
transactional,
inward-looking,
Hobbesian,
self-regarding,
Austrian,
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