How To Use Cynically In A Sentence
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The director hopes to excite the faithful and (cynically speaking), get religious bums in cinema seats.
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Pukhov, a careerist painter, sacrifices his artistic integrity by cynically painting potboilers to please factory and party committees.
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He was cynically giving the audiences what they wanted and expected.
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All these have been supposedly cynically instituted by the state capital complex.
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But color blindness is itself a controversial concept: Some hold it as the highest ideal of true racial equality in a post-racial society, while others cynically dismiss it as a strategy for ignoring evidence of persistent racial discrimination.
Wray Herbert: Colorblind? Or Just Blind to Justice?
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Trying to keep from getting what she cynically called gooey, he shrugged.
Captured by Moonlight
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Pukhov, a careerist painter, sacrifices his artistic integrity by cynically painting potboilers to please factory and party committees.
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It's easy cynically to suggest that some artists ' career and reputation would be bolstered by their own deaths.
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And her inquisitor was the so-called 'Birther Bishop', Anabaptist minister Ron McCrae, who is deeply opposed to Obama, and - say critics - cynically set out to trap her.
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He cynically ignited this class war as cover for the failure of his policies.
The Sun
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The ward bosses' unanticipated about-face was not motivated by conversion but cunning and deceit that cynically betrayed public trust.
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MEDICARE SCARE TACTICS: Republican candidates routinely and cynically charge that the reform law will "cut" $500 billion from Medicare - leaving the clear implication that benefits will be reduced.
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Indeed, what is most troubling is that both sides to the dispute have cynically resorted to the rule of law only when it suited them.
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Whether Gore, cynically, committed himself to originalism to make some political hay is quite besides the point.
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Larsen's frost-blackened lips curved cynically
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Not once but several times has the libertine Neptune scandalously seduced punts and dinghies from the respectable precincts of Brammo Bay, and having philandered with them for a while, cynically abandoned them with a bump on the mainland beach, and only once has he sent a punt in return — a poor, soiled, tar-besmirched, disorderly waif that was reported to the police and reluctantly claimed.
The Confessions of a Beachcomber
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These are not, you have to believe, the cynically high-minded ravings of a politician who merely wants to get re-elected.
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Where it doesn't, it feels cynically provocative.
Times, Sunday Times
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One man cynically sums up his seemingly magical ability to recruit women for his stable: "Any woman can be turned. It is all business."
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Changes to human rights laws cynically exploited by lawyers are also being looked at with an eye to slapping on a geographical limit.
The Sun
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Few, indeed, wanted to be in the army: many openly, cynically, bitterly denounced the war.
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When there are so many brand names and logos, you startcynically pondering the hypocrisy of the filmmakers, who are both slamming but also likely profiting from this blatant placement.
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In Bush's case, he used it cynically and destructively.
Richard (RJ) Eskow: A President's Choice: Resist Wall Street's 'Shock Doctrine' or Keep Listening to the Usual Suspects
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The miners were no angels but the media was blatantly and cynically used as a propaganda machine for the government.
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They cynically tried to trade off a reduction in the slaughter of dolphins against a resumption of commercial whaling.
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Must we be prosy if we are profoundly, uncynically sincere?
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Agreed that Zell's technique, which cynically is used but disavowed or denied when challenged, is old news.
Balkinization
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Some observers interpret these symbols cynically, as opportunistic, basely commercial, unquestioningly nationalistic expressions of pro-war sentiment.
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The Senator had no compunction about appealing to minority interests, cynically perhaps, but certainly effectively.
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The teen horror film and the teen comedy are both about as shallow and cynically complacent as film genres can be.
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She was cynically amused by the fact that Lorimer seemed so familiar with this form of ingress into the Salamanca manse.
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Given the healthy advance booking, the play knocks on the head the cynically despairing argument that all the London public wants is musicals and movie stars.
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They chose their name artfully—cynically, even—appropriating the term the militants used to signify all the social and political ideals they had invested in America’s unexpected and epochal revolution.
Robert Morris
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He told chums he wanted to raise his profile for more telly gigs by cynically getting voted to endure the challenges.
The Sun
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The critic recently slammed her ‘obscene’ boniness, which she felt cynically exploited real-life victims of famine, illness and genocide.
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Those, he had always thought cynically, were the symptoms, not of nascent melancholia but of lack of stamina.
MURDER SONG
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At its best, the show cuts into many forms of televised image manipulation, cynically riffing on every news scandal of the past decade.
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He accused the mainstream political parties of cynically exploiting this situation.
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The government is cynically running down Swe-den's welfare system.
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He cynically points out the signs posted that demand cleanliness, and offers to show us the room where spoiled meats go to be "doctored."
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Taconic, which was a finalist in the bidding, has filed a lawsuit in New York state court against the seller, Mountbatten Equities, alleging that the firm "cynically and duplicitously" used Taconic as a "stalking horse" bidder to increase the sale price.
Condo Complex Sparks a Battle
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Taxi is an embarrassing formula picture that is full of miscalculations and cynically milks previous material.
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The government is cynically running down Swe-den's welfare system.
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The more cynically minded would say that an Italian contemporary music scene simply doesn't exist.
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It has been cynically noted that writing about music is like dancing about architecture.
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The huntsman relents out of pity but also cynically reminds himself that Snow White will probably be devoured by wild animals anyway.
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We have the difficult task of fighting them, while protecting innocents in a war where the enemy deliberately and cynically conflates the two.
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Naively optimistic and resilient, Manet sought honours in the Salons; Degas was cynically indifferent to public acclaim.
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He cynically ignited this class war as cover for the failure of his policies.
The Sun
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The phoney e-card is the latest scam in the eternal battle for online traffic, playing cynically on people's goodwill to bombard them with adverts or promote dubious websites.
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The whole affair was cynically intended to placate the reform party, while the real abuses continued.
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Tax cuts and benefit increases are cynically jiggered to mesh with an increasingly mythical congressional budget plan.
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I find my attempt to cash in cynically on the massive Disney/Walden media spend for the Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and Wardrobe may backfire if I actually begin to enjoy the books.
Letter to America
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In his signature quirky style, which I would describe as cynically romantic, the artist presents scenes from the life of a child who famously refuses to grow up.
Edward Goldman: A Delicious Art Spread for Your Thanksgiving Weekend
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A wide range of conventional weapons were introduced into Afghanistan, and their spillover into neighbouring Pakistan was cynically labelled as the growth of the ‘Kalashnikov culture.’
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The song uncomfortably recalls the familiar Irish/English pub scene of men cynically complaining about women over their pints.
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The North and South have split, and the South is now a backward Bible-bashing regime cynically known as “Jesusland”.
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The director has never made a movie cynically, i.e. just for the tie-ins.
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Maybe it's better than nothing, but am I the only one concerned when I hear someone talk uncynically about transparency and true information through YouTube video clips?
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Manet sought honours in the Salons; Degas was cynically indifferent to public acclaim.
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It is used carelessly and cynically.
Christianity Today
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It's the way to confound those who cynically try to use ‘inactivity by the members’ as an excuse for capitulation.
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The writers offers his cynically black view on the world.
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The singer's dominance on radio stations and in record outlets is often cynically attributed to her former relationship with the record company exec.
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By cynically playing on the follies of various discontented peers and MPs, he builds a faction round the marquis.
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It accused Gaza's Hamas rulers of "cynically" using civilians as human shields.
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If we treat them uncynically and respectfully, as people interested in the good, the true, and the beautiful, and if we read books with them in search of the good, the true, and the beautiful, they invariably rise to the occasion, vindicating our trust in their potential.
Less than God, excelling other creatures
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They are cynically exploiting the fears and concerns that exist over the question of the immigrants.
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This way, a progressive Christian politician can fight for biblical values without throwing around God's name cynically and disrespectfully.
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He cynically ignited this class war as cover for the failure of his policies.
The Sun
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They cynically tried to trade off a reduction in the slaughter of dolphins against a resumption of commercial whaling.
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They cynically tried to trade off a reduction in the slaughter of dolphins against a resumption of commercial whaling.
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To put it straightforwardly, and perhaps a little cynically, in the past children used to be regarded as investments that provided their parents with means of subsistence in old age ... whereas today's anonymous system makes all workers pay for the pensions of all retirees in an utterly depersonalized manner.
Have More Children?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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However, the opposite of cynically or insensitively dismissing people's difficulties is not prettifying their behavior.
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The miners were no angels but the media was blatantly and cynically used as a propaganda machine for the government.
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She also liked that the tomatoes were skinned; although I cynically said it was because of the romantic decorative rose shaped tomato skin presented to us as a garnish on our main courses.
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They cynically and criminally decided to beat up the nuclear angle and so in sept when the ‘ Judies little tubes of terror’ pack of lies was released so all the flying monkees of the evil claven fanned out to whip up the case for war, war, war.
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If a favourite character is advertised to appear on another series then some might cynically say that it is only to boost the ratings.
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Cynically, I could say their set list had a slight stench of predictability as they trawled through singles off both albums, finishing with the better known hits but leaving out a lot of their trademark experimentation.
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Musicians cynically note the gigantic tax abatements the city offers to high tech firms, as compared with the piddling sums it is willing to invest in its pool of thousands of young artists.
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She argues that the food companies have in fact been guilty of cynically manipulating the average American into becoming a porker.
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Rohan had tried to exploit her cynically for his own gain.
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They cynically tried to trade off a reduction in the slaughter of dolphins against a resumption of commercial whaling.
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Today, the prime minister is fond of ranting about the ‘public service ethic’; but that ethic has cynically been debauched by the government.
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Americans have grown accustomed to cynically dismissing campaign promises peddled by politicians on the stump as pure pablum.
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The ending is no mere abrupt trick, cynically toying once again with audiences ' expectations.
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Legislation has too often been cynically reactive to the leader columns of the tabloid newspapers.
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Those, he had always thought cynically, were the symptoms, not of nascent melancholia but of lack of stamina.
MURDER SONG
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His view is that our anxiety about terrorism is hysterically out of proportion, and is cynically perpetuated by our leaders.
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Tax cuts and benefit increases are cynically jiggered to mesh with an increasingly mythical congressional budget plan.
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His party is cynically exploiting vulnerable people and playing on their worst instincts and fears.
Times, Sunday Times
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They cynically target the newly redundant and suggest a complete break with their old firm.
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By using surveillance, the regime cynically granted my father's friend a sort of closeted freedom.
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Bereft of affordable health care, devoid of a decent place to live, watching mutely as politicians cynically 'readjust' standards to appear to be addressing their problems, Americans, New Yorkers, are not like Iranians.
Michael Henry Adams: New Yorkers at the Crossroads?
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ANGRY commuters yesterday accused unions of cynically using the election to force bosses to cave into their demands.
The Sun
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How unexpectedly comforting to slough off our brittle chrysalis of presidential detachment and invest so completely and uncynically in the lives of these people.
Salon
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The Petrol Retailers Association criticised the store for ‘cynically’ offering 20p off unleaded petrol to shoppers who spent more than £150 in its stores.
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In varsity, a friend told me quite plainly and cynically that friends use each other to gain something, using to gain information, influence, solace and companionship.
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"'This could've been a great place,' he laments. Looking on, David cynically responds, ' Look at it now. '
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It would, however, be unjust to the victims of atrocity to let the perpetrators of the crimes against them go free on such a cynically jury-rigged technicality as ‘victor's justice.’
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Pukhov, a careerist painter, sacrifices his artistic integrity by cynically painting potboilers to please factory and party committees.
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This is a film which knows that good films are meant to move us, but doesn't cynically tug on our heartstrings.
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Surely the government would not act in such a cynically hypocritical manner?
Times, Sunday Times
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Givet says he has been cynically exploited.
The Sun
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Now out of form strikers and captains who cynically exploit the laws of the game are immune from being dropped.
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After Diomedes leaves, Cressida speaks in dismay of her own inconstancy, while, unseen, Thersites comments cynically on the whole interview.
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Another reason why British deaths have become a bigger issue even as there has been relatively fewer of them is that sections of the anti-war movement and anti-war commentators have cynically politicised these deaths.
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He told chums he wanted to raise his profile for more telly gigs by cynically getting voted to endure the challenges.
The Sun
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The word is a palindrome, reading the same backwards and forwards - or, to put it more cynically, making little sense whichever way up you hold it.
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He cynically points out the signs posted that demand cleanliness.
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Britain cynically embraces enlargement but resists further delegation of powers to Brussels.
Times, Sunday Times
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He cynically ignited this class war as cover for the failure of his policies.
The Sun
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One suspects that aesthetic considerations were cynically sacrificed to muddle-headed political expediency and tokenism.
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He cynically used the race card to further his ambitions and indulged in all manner of corruption.
The Sun
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How can we ensure that an office invested with broad powers will not be used cynically by political parties, or irrationally by an unexpected megalomaniac?
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Surely the government would not act in such a cynically hypocritical manner?
Times, Sunday Times
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He told chums he wanted to raise his profile for more telly gigs by cynically getting voted to endure the challenges.
The Sun
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The pattern is familiar: vested interests rage against change and do their best to strangle it by cynically invoking such shibboleths as tradition, the family and the sanctity of Sunday.
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It is a powerful drug and manufacturers use it cynically.
Times, Sunday Times
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I don't use the word cynically, but in very virtuous earnest.
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