单词 | cynicism |
释义 | cynicism|ˈsɪnɪsɪz(ə)m| [f. cynic + -ism. Cf. cynism.] 1. (with capital C.) The philosophy of the Cynics: see cynic B. 1.
1672Sir T. Browne Lett. Friend xxiv. (1881) 143 Yet his sober contempt of the world wrought no Democritism or Cynicism, no laughing or snarling at it. 1868tr. Zeller's Socrates 268 The leading thought of Cynicism is the self-sufficiency of virtue. 2. Cynical disposition, character, or quality.
1672[see 1]. 1847Lytton Lucretia (1853) 152 The cynicism of his measured vice. 1881P. Brooks Candle of Lord 150 The bitter cynicism of the newspaper satirist. b. An instance of cynicism; a cynical utterance.
1891Spectator 20 June 847/1 That he had uttered his dangerous cynicisms. |

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