He was a master cynic to surmise that when the future came to balance the accounts, Father Time would be a very bewildered assignee.
Thank heaven, we are not cynical; but it is better to be a hopeful cynic than a disgruntled idealist.
But they make bad company for a young and high-souled man, and you may see your young enthusiast, after a year of town-life, converted into a cynic who tries to make game of everything.
This contemptible cynic told with glee stories of his own vileness which made good men look at him with scorn; but he fancied himself the cleverest of men.
For Browett was a cynic doubter of his own faith; at once an admirer of Voltaire and a believer in the Established Order of Things; despising a radical and a conservative equally, but, hating more than either, a clumsy compromiser.
A cynic is a man who is morally near-sighted,—and brags about it.
An incurable cynic is an individual who should long for death,—for life cannot bring him happiness, death might.
The cynic had become a statesman, the intellectual gladiator an earnest champion of exalted political principle.
I must try and give you the exact words, as far as I can remember them; you will recognize the true Cynic yell, I'll be bound; you have heard it before.
His Cynic friends egg him on and thrust him pyre-wards; they keep his ambition aglow; there shall be no flinching, if they can help it!
A Cynic philosopher, originally a slave, of Gadara in Coele-Syria.
A distinguished cynic philosopher, of Sunium, teacher of Demonax, and probably the hero of the story in the Toxaris.
Aristaenetus got rid of his obtrusiveness for the moment by signing to his servant to hand the cynic a huge goblet of potent liquor.
He did his best to explain, but the Cynic went on bawling, and it was quite out of the question to attend to anything else.
A cynic and eclectic philosopher, senior contemporary of Lucian, from whose 'Life' all that is known of him is gathered.
He went to Athens and became a philosopher of the Cynic school, which see, as a disciple of Antisthenes.
It must not be supposed, however, that the advocate journalist is a cynic who realises that his own cause is a poor one, but calls it the best of causes because he is paid so to do.
I suppose the conventional cynic will expect me to say that I found out how much more quarrelsome, jealous, and feline is a community of women than one of men.
He has known what it is to want bread, and his former restlessness subsides into cynic apathy.
His gay cynic smile changed into a sullen scowl, his hair blanched into white, his eyes were hollow with one consuming care.
Any gentle reader with a cynic strain there may verify this chronicle and find fresh confirmation for the ancient adage that "Fact is stranger far than Fiction.
Whenever temptation to play the cynic or think meanly of my fellow-man shall come, my mind will hark back to those two unpretending fellows and bow in reverence before the selflessness and immensity of the human soul.
And above all, tell her that I prefer her society to that of a second-class cynic who bellows for champagne at ten o'clock in the morning.
A continental cynic had dubbed this insularcynic mad.
Hogg had much of the cynic in his nature; he was a shrewd man of the world, and a caustic humorist.
The cynic Byron acknowledged him to be the best and ablest man he had ever known.
The cynic believes there is no such thing as true friendship, yet the cynic once was young and probably not a stranger to the transforming power of friendship.
But then Christmas is not a festival for either the cynic or the desolate.
Christmas Christmas comes but once a year--and the cynic cries, "Thank God!
Thus he mused For him, the cynic in the Sage had play A hazy moment, by a breath dispersed; To think, of all alive most wedded they, Whom time disjoined!
But in any case he could not remain a cynic and a dirty sloven; he had no right to offend the feelings of others, especially when they were in need of his assistance and asking him to see them.
The sobering light of day, with its cynic relapse to actualities, might have left that promise a worthless one, had not the prompt evidence of Sheldon's suicide come to hand.
In his heart the savage old cynic approved, but, for the life of him, he could not check the sneer.
The cynictwist of the page thereat unknit Back to its normal figure, having wrought its purport wry, The Mage's mirror left the window-square, And the stained moon and drift retook their places there.
The Cynic was in the garden when I reached the Hall, and he told me that the squire was asleep in the library, so we drew two deck-chairs into the sunshine and sat down for an hour on the lawn.
I wonder if the Cynic has told him anything of Rose.
The Cynic blew a thin column of smoke towards the ceiling and spoke languidly: "Stevenson says--I mean R.
The Cynic must have left my side, for when at length I ventured to look round he was across the room examining a curio.
As I screamed wildly, I saw the Cynic leap the wall in his golf suit, and woke just in time to save myself considerable embarrassment.
I took so much money, comparatively speaking, in three short hours that I began to see visions and dream dreams--but the Cynic dispelled them.
We had had a glorious day, and I must admit that theCynic had added not a little to our enjoyment.
It might have been expected that one who was in other things an ironical cynic would at least have sought to seem disillusionised.
He at first became a disciple of the Cynic Crateas, then of Stilpo, one of the Megarians, and lastly he betook himself to the Academy, where he heard the lessons of Xenocrates and Polemo.
M) I hold it truth with them that sing With one long carp in cynic tones, That men will rise on stepping-stones Of their best selves for anything.
Illustration] The Complete Cynic Being Bunches of Wisdom Culled from the Calendars of Oliver Herford Ethel Watts Mumford Addison Mizner [Illustration] Paul Elder & Company Publishers .
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cynic" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: cynic; defeatist; knocker; misanthrope; misery; misogynist; pessimist; slanderer
