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Meaning:
Adjective:
- bitterly or jadedly distrustful or contemptuous; mocking.
- Concerned only with one's own interests and disregarding accepted standards to achieve them: ''A cynical fool''
- medicine|rare like the actions of a snarling dog.
- of or related to the belief that human actions are motivated only or primarily by base desires or selfishness.
- 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.
- showing contempt for accepted moral standards by one's actions.
- skeptical of the integrity, sincerity, or motives of others.
Source: Wiktionary
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