He was dark and thin, cynically intelligent looking, of a type new to Mary; and she thanked him for being disappointed that she could not stop in Paris.
He is cynically illiterate and contemptuous of the respectable classes.
It would be wearisome to detail the methods by which every act of Sir Arthur Gordon's to benefit the whole population wascynically and systematically undone by this his native-hating successor.
He laughed cynically at his hearer's blank look of surprise.
He had entered the room cynically contemptuous over the inevitable predicament into which Fate and his impulsive actions had led him.
Then, cynically now, he reviewed the time when he had taken to drinking, heavily and systematically, and had succeeded in pulling himself up at the very brink of the pit he saw yawning before him.
He was amused at the blind way in which the man had walked into his trap, and meditated cynically on the frailty of human nature, which will always follow the great god Mammon.
Ah," Miss Gostrey cynically laughed, "what a picture of HER!
The pack, as he cynically thought of them, would have started at the Clark ranch and the cabin.
The soldiers misliked him, while the captains complained; and the councillors cynically abstained from giving advice whenever he seemed inclined to do anything unpopular or capable of misrepresentation.
They prophesied great things, but did nothing; and Fitzwilliam, who had yielded to their importunity for fear of Court slanders, cynically observed that he never supposed they would do anything.
And it was least apparent in her own actions, which is the weak point of the cynically sane.
While another politician cynically observes that they represent nobody but themselves, and enjoy the full confidence of their constituents.
David Hume complained perpetually of the lack of room; while Cobbett cynically referred to it as "the little hole into which we are all crammed to make the laws by which this great kingdom is governed.
A tall, slouching hollow-chested man of forty, who looked unhappy and yetcynically amused at the world.
As it was she would ruin him, and he would go under, not able to bear it, but cynically grinning still.
She was really rather like Grandmama, in her cynically patient acquiescence, only brought up in a different generation, and not to hear sermons.
I bet that'll suit her book," he cynically thought.
And I didn't smile cynically as I handed him the cigarette.
We should learn that diplomacy has swapped national honor, and betrayed it, and used it cynically for the advantage of a few--as well as protected it.
She realized cynically that for the present at any rate the woman question came down to just this: men could do many pleasant and useful things for women when they were so inclined.
And while some of the men peered at Parsons, cynically inspecting him for signs of drunkenness, several others ran to the open door and looked out into the street.
From under the peak of a cap pulled well down over his eyes he smiled cynically at his fellow-passengers, noting the various manifestations of their discomfort.
He and his wife were falling naturally into the way of--as he had just cynically styled it--fashionable people.
Once she asked cynically if he had ever heard of a "Rose of Sharon" to which he maliciously replied: "She turned out to be a Rag-weed.
Martin smiled cynically as he let his thoughts drift along this channel.
She never carried a heavy bucket in from the pump without thinking cynically of Martin's promises of running water.
He had teased her when she was a very little girl, laughing at her naïve honesty, throwing doubts on her independence, cynically ridiculing her loyalty.
Her soul was in such darkness that she had never seen it; she would have danced away cynically from the belief that there is such a thing, and now all at once she had passed from disbelief to knowledge.
But shall we who are old smile cynically at the brief and burning passion of the young?
The charge frequently brought against the dramatist that in 'Troilus and Cressida' he cynically invested the Greek heroes of classical antiquity with contemptible characteristics is ill supported by the text of the play.
At the close of the performance Ratsey, according to the memoir, addressed himself to a leader of the company, and cynically urged him to practise the utmost frugality in London.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cynically" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
