1 believing that people only do things to help themselves rather than for good or honest reasons:
Do you have to be so cynical about everything? * a cynical view / smile
2 not caring that sth might hurt other people, if there is some advantage for you:
a cynical disregard for the safety of others * a deliberate and cynical foul
cynically adverb
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for cynical is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is cynical a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, cynical is tagged as adjective.
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