cynical

His smile impressed me as cynical and a trifle contemptuous.

She pictured him tall, slim, cynical; with eye-glasses, and his hands in his pockets; and she did not like him.

And, trembling, pale, and gasping for breath, he pointed to the gibbet at the other side of the yard, with the cynical inscription surmounting it.

During the night-watches some cynical old sailors will crawl into them and coil themselves away there for a nap.

I wish, though, that Cecil had not turned so cynical about women.

Many dear old ladies who daily look at tiny shoes lying in lavender-scented drawers, and weep as they think of the tiny feet whose toddling march is done, and sweet-faced young ones who place each night beneath their pillow some lock that once curled on a boyish head that the salt waves have kissed to death, will call me a nasty cynical brute and say I'm talking nonsense; but I believe, nevertheless, that if they will ask themselves truthfully whether they find it unpleasant to dwell thus on their sorrow, they will be compelled to answer "No." Tears are as sweet as laughter to some natures.

He must have been immensely in advance of most of the thinking and feeling of his day, for people then used to accuse his sentimental pessimism of cynical qualities which we could hardly find in it now.

In those cynical words there was indeed a grain of truth.

You put, however, a kind of reckless confidence into your pleasure which at times, I confess, has seemed to me--shall I say it?--almost cynical. Your way at any rate is not my way, and it is unwise that we should attempt any longer to pull together.

"A learned man in a cynical and torn dress holding an open book in his hand."

Cynical things he had uttered to himself about her; but no man can be always a cynic and live; and he withdrew them.

The bank had continued to take in money for a whole day after its failure was inevitable; and as many of its clients belonged to one or another of the ruling clans, Beaufort's duplicity seemed doubly cynical. If Mrs.