Cynical

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Of or relating to the belief that human actions are motivated only or primarily by base desires or selfishness.

   “I hope it is no very cynical asperity not to confess obligations where no benefit has been received.”

2. sıfat Skeptical of the integrity, sincerity, or motives of others.
3. sıfat Bitterly or jadedly distrustful or contemptuous; mocking.

   “He seldom talked, and when he did, it was usually to make some cynical remark-for instance, he would say that God had given him a tail to keep the flies off, but that he would sooner have had no tail and no flies.”

4. sıfat Showing contempt for accepted moral standards by one's actions.
5. sıfat Like the actions of a snarling dog, especially in reference to facial nerve paralysis.

   “Towards noon, he experienced convulsive movements; the extremities became stiff, the pulse extremely small, and he died during an attack of cynical spasm.”

6. sıfat Of or relating to the Cynics, 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.