Clues for the word "CYNICAL"
We've had 23 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 29 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Penny Dell Daily crossword on May 10, 2024.
Definition of cynical
- a. - Having the qualities of a surly dog; snarling; captious; currish.
- a. - Pertaining to the Dog Star; as, the cynic, or Sothic, year; cynic cycle.
- a. - Belonging to the sect of philosophers called cynics; having the qualities of a cynic; pertaining to, or resembling, the doctrines of the cynics.
- a. - Given to sneering at rectitude and the conduct of life by moral principles; disbelieving in the reality of any human purposes which are not suggested or directed by self-interest or self-indulgence; as, a cynical man who scoffs at pretensions of integrity; characterized by such opinions; as, cynical views of human nature.
Referring Clues
- Like Diogenes
- Showing mockery
- Sardonic
- Bitter
- Curmudgeonly
- Critically contemptuous
- Jaded
- Distrustful
- Sneeringly doubtful
- Hardly Pollyanna-ish
- Snarky, minus the humor
- Being sarcastic, Clancy's badly out of line!
- Bitter controversy on both sides at tax payable - albeit cut back
- Believing the worst of human nature
- Of a pessimistic disposition about the world
- Like some politicians' ploys
- Disillusioned by New York City setback I left to travel round California
- Jaundiced Charlie modelled in clay
- Sarcastic voice wrong, a little childish
- Like Ambrose Bierce, famously
- Sarcastic
- Sneering
- Sneeringly distrustful
Last Seen In
- Penny Dell Daily - May 10, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - February 12, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - January 17, 2024
- Family Time - December 18, 2023
- Daily American - September 02, 2023
- Daily American - May 13, 2023
- Evening Standard Cryptic - November 16, 2017
- Daily American - September 02, 2017
- Daily American - May 13, 2017
- Washington Post Sunday - February 26, 2017
- Netword - March 20, 2016
- Guardian Cryptic - January 22, 2015
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - March 06, 2013
- Guardian Prize - April 09, 2011
- Guardian Quiptic - January 17, 2011
- Guardian Quick - January 07, 2011
- Guardian Prize - October 23, 2010
- Washington Post - October 13, 2010
- Thinks Daily - May 02, 2010
- Wall Street Journal - February 26, 2010
- Guardian Quick - September 16, 2009
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - December 16, 2008
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - July 19, 2008
- LA Times - February 14, 2008
- Netword - September 21, 2006
- Jonesin - August 15, 2006
- Washington Post - October 17, 2004
- New York Times - March 16, 2001
- Washington Post - August 05, 2000