Sentence examples for cynically from inspiring English sources

The word 'cynically' is correct and commonly used in written English
It describes a feeling or attitude of distrust, skepticism, or negativity towards something or someone. Example: She cynically remarked that the politician's promises were just empty words and she didn't believe a word he said.

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cynically

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In a cynical manner

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Marcelo cynically took out Morata yet Tevez scuttled on and Carvajal abjectly failed to check him.

The trap that Lenihan and the Irish cabinet have cynically set for the opposition won't save Fianna Fáil from a crushing defeat in the general election, which is likely to be held some time in early March.

Soldado cynically tripped Joaquín on the left edge of the penalty area and from the resulting free-kick Vincenzo Montella's side were level.

It flickers through my mind cynically that we may see that patient again at their next attempt.

Tobacco firms tend to plaster their own electronic products with terrifying health warnings that, some observers suspect, are an attempt cynically to play up fears of vaping's potential harm and put switchers off.

They cynically manipulated that underlying sense of fear and loathing that holds back these working class redoubts from moving on with the rest of society.

"In my opinion Mr Kennedy-Macfoy has cynically played the race card for his own ends," Burgum said in a statement to the Guardian.

In Northern Ireland, the Democratic Unionists have cleverly – or perhaps cynically – left themselves open to offers from both Labour and the Conservatives.

So it is perhaps doubly unfortunate (or, cynically well-timed) that this week's media blitz also sees parliament racing to undo the rules of Protestant succession for the crown, and the Ministry of Defence sacking another 5,000 soldiers.

Their opponents say that the FARC cynically used the peace talks and sacrificed the UP as a means of buying time to build up their guerrilla army part of their strategy of "combining all forms of struggle".The antecedent of the UP hangs over the promising new peace talks that the FARC and Colombia's government have been conducting in Havana since November.

Some accused Mr Peña of acting cynically in announcing with much fanfare an investigation that he must have known would be limited in scope.

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