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How to use the word cynical in a Sentence?

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Alito’s citation is both cynical and misleading, implying that Justice Ginsburg disapproved of the Roe holding.

– Lara Bazelon

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I am standing here before you, the Rabin family, the Rabin Center members, holding out my hand and asking, 27 years later: Please let us be partners in this day. Let’s search for the common message that will make us remember together, the whole nation, left and right, religious and secular. Don’t let them turn the murder memorial into a day of cynical exploitation and political mudslinging.

– Bezalel Smotrich

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1 year ago

Today, magistrate Judge Reinhard [sic] rejected the DOJ’s cynical attempt to hide the whole affidavit from Americans, no redactions should be necessary and the whole affidavit should bereleased, given the Democrats’ penchant for using redactions to hide government corruption, just like they did with the Russia hoax.

– Taylor Budowich

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Today's Russian missile attack on Odesa, on our port, is a cynical one, and it was also a blow to the political positions of Russia itself, if anyone in the world could still say that some kind of dialogue with it, with Russia, some kind of agreements are needed, see what is happening. Today's Russian Kalibr missiles have destroyed the very possibility for such statements.

– Volodymyr Zelenskyy

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Or Biden's strategy — make Russia weak by sucking its military power on [the] Ukrainian battlefield, giving Javelins [anti-tank missiles] by small portions needed only to block further Russian attacks but not giving us chance to destroy Russian troops quickly. In this case, it's just too cynical and cruel, because this strategy costs hundreds of lives of Ukrainian citizens daily.

– Volodymyr Solohub

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

This is yet another example of the illegal, cynical and barbaric acts perpetrated by the Russian armed forces in the context of their reckless and unprovoked aggression against Ukraine, we call on the Russian military authorities to Ivan Fedorov immediately and to ensure that Ivan Fedorov health and safety is preserved. We urge the Russian authorities to fully respect the Geneva Conventions on combatants and non-combatant civilians and prisoners of war, as well as all relevant provisions of International Humanitarian Law.

– Ukrainian Parliament

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

In recent days, elected leaders in Texas have launched a cynical and dangerous campaign targeting transgender children and their parents, the governor of Texas has directed state officials to open child abuse investigations into families simply because they have provided access to affirming care for their children.

– White House

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

He had an excuse not to [ be positive ]. Bob had every excuse under the sun to be cynical, to be upset, to be distrusting of fate. He had every reason under the sun not to trust the system.

– John Mayer

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

This incident is a recurrence of past incidents, every time event planners and promoters get a wake up call, they hit the snooze button. They're not gonna learn anything. It sounds negative and cynical, but it's true. They say all the right things but they never do the right thing.

– Paul Wertheimer

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I think, what will go wrong with it ? i have a little bit more of a cynical attitude, I guess.

– Kyle Weins of iFixit

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The insensitive remarks made by Jon Gruden about DeMaurice Smith are indicative of the racism that exists on many levels of professional sports, furthermore, it reveals that the journey for African Americans and other minorities in sports is riddled with irrepressible mindsets at the highest level. It is our hope that the league and team ownership will address this matter with a remedy commensurate with these painful words. This is yet another inflection point in a society fraught with cynical social blinders, absent of respect for the intellectual capacity and leadership of minorities. When will it end?

– Rod Graves

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Three women brutally attacked our hosts without provocation, got arrested and charged for their misconduct, and then, over the last several days, had their lawyer falsely and grossly misrepresent their acts of wanton violence in a cynical attempt to try to excuse the inexcusable.

– Jeffrey Bank

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

While I understand the State Elections Board had no choice in this matter, it is still outrageous to see the Big Lie and demands of conspiracy theorists continue to progress, this is the result of a cynical ploy to undermine faith in our elections process and democracy itself -- it is shameful partisan politics at its very worst.

– Commissioners Chairman Robb Pitts

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I just think it seems awful cynical that he would keep coming out against Marvel and then that is the only thing that would get him press for his movie, he's creating his movie in the shadow of the Marvel films, and so he uses that to get attention for something he wasn't getting as much attention as he wanted for it.

– James Gunn

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

It is not a final deadline for legislative text. It is not a cynical ploy, it is not a fish-or-cut-bait moment. It is not an attempt to jam anyone. It is only a signal that Senate Democrats is ready to get the process started – something Senate Democrats has routinely done on other bipartisan bills this year.

– Chuck Schumer

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Nobody is going to propose a tax on all Americans. The cynical side of me says we kind of know that. But it gives us a talking point, we can say,' What is ExxonMobil for ? We're for a carbon tax.'.

– Keith McCoy

Found on CNN
2 years ago

All I ask is one thing, and I'm asking this particularly of young people that watch : Please do not be cynical, i hate cynicism. For the record, it's my least-favorite quality — it doesn't lead anywhere. Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you're kind, amazing things will happen.

– Conan OBriens late-night careerO'Brien jokes

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The whole brouhaha here is overblown to the point where there are cynical suggestions offered for the plain and simple truth that the chamber wanted only to release accurate information that they believed was totally unassailable, the chamber was never satisfied that the numbers that they were getting from D.O.H. were accurate. The chamber responded to the D.O.J. request with what they deemed to be totally accurate numbers. They didn’t want to have a public debate about other numbers at the same time.

– Elkin Abramowitz

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Americans of both parties should criticize this unproductive and cynical move. President Biden looks forward to working with leaders in both parties to position America to out-compete China.

– Emily Horne

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

I understand why people want to have a cynical view of this. that doesn't give enough credit to just how disturbing events were last week.

– Tony Fratto

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Secretary Pompeo need to ground the relationship between citizens and their government in religious terms is both antiquated and alarming. Secretary Pompeo insistence on bashing major American news organizations during a speech about America's foundational principles is cynical, if in keeping with the views of President Donald Trump.

– Rob Berschinski

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Secretary Pompeo's speech today on the' Commission on the Unalienable Rights' loosely clothed a foray into the culture wars under the seal of the US State Department, secretary Pompeo need to ground the relationship between citizens and their government in religious terms is both antiquated and alarming. Secretary Pompeo insistence on bashing major American news organizations during a speech about America's foundational principles is cynical, if in keeping with the views of President Donald Trump.

– Rob Berschinski

Found on CNN
3 years ago

What is clear is the public deserves answers as to why Luis Magana donors are helping to hand out hundreds of millions of dollars of pandemic money, and they deserve full transparency, using a pandemic to curry political favor with wealthy contributors is exactly the cynical swampiness that Americans cant stand about Washington. We will look into whether or not the closed door meetings violated Montanas open meetings law, but GovernorBullockowes the citizens of Montana as much transparency as possible when theres a potential public health emergency.

– Adam Laxalt

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

The Senate Democrats just engaged in one of the most cynical displays of partisanship I have ever seen in the U.S. Senate, they let Pelosi blow up a bipartisan agreement.

– Brian Riedl

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

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