A person whose outlook is scornfully negative.
Well, that's one in the eye for the nay-sayers, the doubters, the cynics and assorted tosspots what make up the media and that.
A person who believes that all people are motivated by selfishness.
A member of a sect of Ancient Greek philosophers who believed virtue to be the only good and self-control to be the only means of achieving virtue.
cynical (in all senses
Relating to the Dog Star.
the cynic, or Sothic, year; cynic cycle
Of or relating to the Cynics.
From Middle English cynike, cynicke, from Middle French cynique, from Latin cynicus, from Ancient Greek κυνικός (kunikós), originally derived from the portico in Athens called Κυνόσαργες (Kunósarges),...
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