cynic 的 2 个定义
- a person who believes that only selfishness motivates human actions and who disbelieves in or minimizes selfless acts or disinterested points of view.
- one of a sect of Greek philosophers, 4th century b.c., who advocated the doctrines that virtue is the only good, that the essence of virtue is self-control, and that surrender to any external influence is beneath human dignity.
- a person who shows or expresses a bitterly or sneeringly cynical attitude.
- cynical.
- Also Cynical. of or relating to the Cynics or their doctrines.
- Medicine/Medical Now Rare. resembling the actions of a snarling dog.
cynic 近义词
nonbeliever
更多cynic例句
- In Wilde’s day, the cynic and sentimentalist characters made for good theater.
- The cynics, meanwhile, shorted GME to heights rarely seen in the past decade—to well north of 100% of the stock’s total float.
- A cynic would say this is a way for the company to drive product adoption until it has a large, installed base of users.
- The world, unfortunately, or some people—cynics—the cynical blogosphere at least—still sees fitness equipment as rote weight loss.
- A cynic might wonder if the police were telling the whole truth.
- You, dear reader and refusenik, will likely be called a cynic or a sad sack by friends.
- A cynic might say that the report is like the movie Clue, perfectly set up for a multiplicity of endings.
- Though he made it back to the top by dint of talent and hard work, he remained a deep-dyed cynic for the rest of his life.
- Putin, after all, is not the only cynic on center stage in the Ukraine crisis.
- Likely, Harold would have accepted the short shrift with his usual cynic's grace.
- A cynic was Blondet, with little regard for glory undefiled.
- Could I have been led to believe that the vile mockery of the cynic was applicable to one in my forlorn and desperate situation?
- I've met him; he's a bad-tempered hypochondriac, a cynic at heart, and a man whose word is never doubted.
- The word cynic, too, comes from the name given to certain Greek philosophers who despised pleasure.
- Suppose he is a cynic, it is to his interest to govern well.