cynically

From cynical + -ly.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈsɪn.ɪk.(ə.)li/

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cynically (comparative more cynically, superlative most cynically)

1. in a cynical manner.
   • 1992, Moncrieff/Kilmartin/Enright, translating Marcel Proust, Swann’s Way, Folio Society 2005, p. 190:

     It was not only the brilliant phalanx of virtuous dowagers, generals and academicians with whom he was most intimately associated that Swann so cynically compelled to serve him as panders.

   • 2003 November 21, Peter Bradshaw, “Love Actually”, in The Guardian‎^[1], archived from the original on 6 March 2026:

     And overseeing them all, like a raddled old good-ish fairy, is Bill Nighy, playing a superannuated rocker hoping to get a Christmas number one with his cynically repackaged version of Love Is All Around.

   • 2005, Sean Dooley, The Big Twitch, Sydney: Allen and Unwin, page 217:

     With the typical moroseness of a dipping twitcher he turned to me, looking cynically at my spotlight, and said, `I don't like your chances, mate.'