Sentence examples for cynical grin from inspiring English sources

The South African fast bowler Sandy Bell described bowling to him as, "heart-breaking ... with his sort of cynical grin, which rather reminds one of the Sphinx ... he never seems to perspire".

Somewhere amid the rictus grins of this cynical seasonal offering there lurks the spectre of the old-school variety show in which tradition demands that you applaud a string of famous people for simply turning up, rather than actually being any good.

'I watched as Portillo's smile evaporated into a cynical smirk and it became the turn of Stephen Twigg's huge toothy grin to light up the sports centre.

Everything from political pop art to cynical realism like Yue Minjun's gruesome "Execution", with the victims bearing his trademark face-splitting grin, which sold for $6 million at Sotheby's in London this fall.

Sly grin.

Be cynical.

Still cynical?

Cynical commercialism?

Too cynical?

Cynical, perhaps.

Cynical manipulation?