DISTRUSTFUL vs CYNICAL: ADJECTIVE
- Incredulous by virtue of distrust
- Feeling or showing doubt.
- Not confident; diffident; wanting confidence or thrust; modest.
- Apt to distrust; suspicious; mistrustful.
- Marked by distrust; doubtful; suspicious.
- Causing or giving rise to distrust.
- Having or showing distrust
- Believing the worst of human nature and motives; having a sneering disbelief in e.g. selflessness of others
- Believing or showing the belief that people are motivated chiefly by base or selfish concerns; skeptical of the motives of others.
- Negative or pessimistic, as from world-weariness.
- Expressing jaded or scornful skepticism or negativity.
- Of or relating to the belief that human actions are motivated only or primarily by base desires or selfishness.
- Skeptical of the integrity, sincerity, or motives of others.
- Bitterly or jadedly distrustful or contemptuous; mocking.
- Showing contempt for accepted moral standards by one's actions.
- Like the actions of a snarling dog.
- Selfishly or callously calculating.
DISTRUSTFUL vs CYNICAL: OTHER WORD TYPES
- Full of distrust; wanting confidence; suspicious; mistrustful.
- Not confident; apprehensive; diffident; modest: as, distrustful of ourselves.
- Synonyms Pessimistic, etc. (see misanthropic), morose, sarcastic, satirical, carping, censorious, snappish, waspish.
- Having or showing a disposition to disbelieve in or doubt the sincerity or value of social usages or of personal character, motives, or doings, and to express or intimate the disbelief or doubt by sarcasm, satire, sneers, or other in-direction; captious; carping; sarcastic; satirical: as, a cynical remark; a cynical smile.
- Same as cynic, 3.
DISTRUSTFUL vs CYNICAL: RELATED WORDS
- Misogynic, Oversuspicious, Questioning, Doubting, Sceptical, Misanthropic, Incredulous, Suspicious, Cynical, Jealous, Leery, Wary, Skeptical, Untrusting, Mistrustful
- Disingenuous, Crass, Naive, Diogenic, Nasty, Sceptical, Insensitive, Disillusioned, Ironic, Sarcastic, Callous, Cynic, Misanthropical, Distrustful, Misanthropic
DISTRUSTFUL vs CYNICAL: DESCRIBE WORDS
- Misanthropical, Green eyed, Questioning, Doubting, Sceptical, Misanthropic, Incredulous, Suspicious, Cynical, Jealous, Leery, Wary, Skeptical, Untrusting, Mistrustful
- Disingenuous, Crass, Naive, Diogenic, Nasty, Sceptical, Insensitive, Disillusioned, Ironic, Sarcastic, Callous, Cynic, Misanthropical, Distrustful, Misanthropic
DISTRUSTFUL vs CYNICAL: SENTENCE EXAMPLES
- My mother and, increasingly, the entire neighborhood embodied another: consumerist, isolated, angry, distrustful.
- In general, this has made the public somewhat distrustful of telephone surveys.
- Nixon was stiff socially, vulgar around trusted friends, and distrustful of most.
- Bland rode off, a little distrustful of the penning, but satisfied withal.
- Others may have mental health issues that make them distrustful of strangers.
- Europe thus became divided between two hostile and mutually distrustful coalitions.
- He is harmless with his family but distrustful of strangers.
- Internally, they may often feel cynical, distrustful, and dissatisfied.
- Internally, they often feel moody, distrustful, cynical, and dissatisfied.
- The modern contract is therefore distrustful by nature.
- She is an intelligent, cynical and angsty goth.
- Fortunately, she had remembered teenage chat more cynical?
- His cynical nature made for a tenacious adversary.
- You seem to be an extremely cynical individual.
- Kate Pierce, who is now a cynical teenager.
- Most unfair comment there, bubbs, far too cynical.
- They are deeply cynical about their elected representatives.
- Dutch citizens seems cynical about politics and has been quite cynical about politics for as long as we can trace back in time.
- I was cynical about love, or perhaps cynical about what marriage could do to love.
- If cynical is another word for very literal, then yes you certainly are getting cynical.
DISTRUSTFUL vs CYNICAL: QUESTIONS
- Why is the Danish judicial system so distrustful of legislative power?
- How many answers are there to the distrustful crossword clue?
- Was Khrushchev's speech a cynical ploy to save his skin?
- Do you make a great team when your partner is cynical?
- Are there any leaders who have been both cynical and effective?
- Are people overly cynical about the lives of their loved ones?
- Why did Waltari become more cynical as he got older?
- How is hamlet cynical about the ghost of his father?
- What are the main factors that make people cynical?
- Are alcopops a cynical attempt to recruit young drinkers?
- Is adult cynical hostility spatially patterned within the city?
- Are Philippine social scientists jaded and cynical?