cynicism

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This cynicism is the price PK pays for too many compromises with personal business interests in the past.

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  1. noun An attitude of scornful or jaded negativity, especially a general distrust of the integrity or professed motives of others: the public cynicism aroused by governmental scandals.
  2. noun A scornfully or jadedly negative comment or act: "She arrived at a philosophy of her own, all made up of her private notations and cynicisms” (Henry James).
  3. noun The beliefs of the ancient Cynics.

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  • This cynicism is the price PK pays for too many compromises with personal business interests in the past. —  Crikey » Canberra Calling
  • I believe this kind of cynicism is the unofficial religion of the conservative movement. —  One Utah
  • But this cynicism is the basic prerequisite for progressive credentials. —  Latest Articles
  • And all those times when your cynicism was at odds with an impulse within you that said that this little thing might be about something bigger-those tiny little slivers may in fact be connected to something really, really big. —  Denny Burk
  • I possibly didn't state obliquely how cynical I have become of this system even though the cynicism was always there implicitly. —  Fighting Monsters
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  1. from cynic + -ism. Cf. Late Latin cynismus, from Greek κυνισμός, cynicism, from κυνίζειν, be a cynic, from κυνικός, a cynic: see cynic.
 

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