cynicism

cynicism
n
1. misanthropy, antisociality, hatred; pessimism, defeatism, malism; skepticism, suspicion, disbelief, distrust.
2. derision, ridicule, scorn, mockery; satire, irony, lampoon, burlesque; contempt, disparagement, disdain, superciliousness, haughtiness, arrogance; criticism, censure, hypercriticalness, captiousness; taunt, fleer, gibe, jeer, flout, scoff, sneer, wipe, quip, nip; abuse, contumely, barb, slur, vituperation, aspersion.
3. acrimony, acrimoniousness, causticity, asperity, mordancy, acridness, acridity, pungency, venom, ven-omousness, venomness; trenchancy, keenness, inci-siveness; virulence, spite, spitefulness, malice, maliciousness, viciousness; astringency, severity, sternness, acerbity, austerity.
4. peevishness, petulance, Rare. petulancy, crabbedness, testiness, touchiness, irascibility, edginess; ill temper, ill-temperedness, short-temperedness, ill humor, ill-humoredness.

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