(adj.) believing the worst of human nature and motives; having a sneering disbelief in e.g. selflessness of others .
格思里整理
双语例句
The lad only answered by turning his cynical young face, half-arch, half-truculent, towards the paternal chair. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特.雪莉.
This is cynical. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特.雪莉.
It may be interesting to tell a little of this intelligent and cynical man. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.
Their sole comment on what they saw was a cynical smile flashed into each other's stern eyes. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特.雪莉.
It was the one thing he was never cynical about. 欧内斯特·海明威.丧钟为谁而鸣.
Very well, said the Demarch, with a cynical smile, which but ill became his pallid face; I will put you to the teSt Call in every one. 弗格斯·休姆.奇幻岛.
Karkov was not cynical about those times either when he talked. 欧内斯特·海明威.丧钟为谁而鸣.
She felt already purely cynical. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯.恋爱中的女人.
That had been the first big disillusion to him a few months back and he had started to be cynical to himself about it. 欧内斯特·海明威.丧钟为谁而鸣.
Some cynical Frenchman has said that there are two parties to a love-transaction: the one who loves and the other who condescends to be so treated. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷.名利场.
Don't get cynical. 欧内斯特·海明威.丧钟为谁而鸣.
We are caught between the ignorant and the cynical. 欧内斯特·海明威.丧钟为谁而鸣.
The cynical indifference of legislatures and the hypocrisy of the dominant parties were all that politics had to offer. 沃尔特·李普曼.政治序论.
Cross the threshold, and you found her completely, completely cynical about the social world and its advantages. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯.恋爱中的女人.
Mr. Helstone pushed out his cynical lip, wrinkled his brown forehead, and gave an inarticulate grunt. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特.雪莉.
This cynical declaration is at least a recognition that the bond of union is not merely one of coercive force. 约翰·杜威.民主与教育.
Then the reaction from this view as a cynical depreciation of human nature leads to the view that men who act nobly act with no interest at all. 约翰·杜威.民主与教育.
Such incidents tend to justify Edison in his rather cynical remark that he has always been able to improve machinery much quicker than men. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔.爱迪生的生平和发明.