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Cynical. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1893, rev. 2025. Cynical a. [f. as prec. + -AL.]

1   1.  Resembling the Cynic philosophers in contempt of pleasure, churlishness, or disposition to find fault; characteristic of a cynic; surly, currish, misanthropic, captious; now esp. disposed to disbelieve in human sincerity or goodness; sneering.

2 1588.  Greene, Pandosto (1607), 24. Canst thou not loue? Commeth this Cynicall passion of prone desires, or peeuish frowardnes?

3 1615.  J. Stephens, Satyr. Ess. (ed. 2), 43. They seeke … To be accounted sharpe and Cynicall.

4 1670.  P. Henry, Diaries & Lett. (1882), 225. In lodging, diet, apparel, cynical below the calling of a Gospel minister.

5 1814.  D’Israeli, Quarrels Auth. (1867), 440. Our cynical Hobbes had no respect for his species.

6 1875.  Farrar, Silence & Voices, iii. 65. A cynical journalism which sneered at every belief.

7   † 2.  Belonging to the sect of Cynic philosophers; = CYNIC a. 1. Obs. rare.

8 1675.  Otway, Alcibiades, 33. Let the Cynical fool call pleasure a toy.

9   3.  With etymological allusion: Relating to a dog; dog-like.

10 1616.  Bullokar, Cynicall, doggish.

11 c. 1645.  Howell, Lett. (1650), III. 27. Besides this Cinicall, ther is a kind of Wolvish humor hath seizd upon most of this peeple.

12 1869.  Sir G. Bowyer, in Times, 15 Sept., 10/5. Instead of writing to his Holiness in ‘ecclesiastical Latin’ (to which a more cynical name might be given).

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