What is "cynically"

Usage examples of "cynically".

Rian decreed, a dark brow arching cynically at the rebellious expression on her face.

Rian commented cynically, not releasing the hold on her wrist that brought his lean, hard face so close to her.

Inside the office with the door closed behind them, Laurie glanced anxiously towards Rian, thinking his features had grown more forbidding and cynically withdrawn.

He fretted gloomily about all the next day, riding alone in the Park, driving with his sister, drinking and gambling at the club again and smiling cynically to himself at the covert glances his acquaintances exchanged.

He smiled cynically at the moral height to which his logic thus pointed the way.

As long as twenty years ago it was cynically admitted in Anglo-Indian circles that Gandhi was very useful to the British Government.

He hated her for going through his money, cynically eating and spending her way through the money he had got for his Corder figure.

Perhaps, Ferrol thought cynically, he was to the point of considering that an adequate answer.

Thus morality in politics makes bad politics if taken seriously, and if used cynically, it dishonors him who uses it.

If the morality is used quite cynically, as propaganda to increase the brutalization of a war, it distorts war and politics in the direction of bestiality.

A law which nationalist elements had passed long before the War, to prohibit this sort of involvement in wars, was cynically put aside.

From recommended suitor to ineligible in the blink of a fortune, Jenna thought cynically.

Perhaps, thought Curio cynically, because he radiated masculinity without owning beauty of face.

Plus, cynically, Mahoney pointed out that it would be very unlikely for any Mantis troopie to surrender and be deprogrammable, unlike the average machine.

Harry saw the gesture and reflected cynically on the foolishness of a profession in which sub-rosa byplay was an accepted, even rehearsed, part of the practice.