Synonyms for cynicism
ˈsɪn əˌsɪz əmcyn·i·cism

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1. cynicism

   Synonyms:
   free-thinking, indifference, latitudinarianism

   Antonyms:
   bigotry, credulity, fanaticism, intolerance, superstition

Princeton's WordNet

1. cynicismnoun

   a cynical feeling of distrust

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1. Ben Rhodes:

   That whataboutism is meant to engender cynicism, that nothing really matters, it's not worth even challenging this, that everybody's just as corrupt as everybody else, and I think it's incumbent on Joe Biden to draw the clear distinctions between what America stands for in the world and what Vladimir Putin has been up to for the better part of over two decades now.

2. Nathan M. Pusey:

   It is more difficult to maintain a realistic sense of human limitation. To refuse to become frustrated and angry, to analyze, to assess, to seek to understand and explain. To determine to be adult and fair. And, thus, to work patiently to improve while refusing to succumb to either cynicism and hopelessness. It is the long way around, but it is the civilized way, and the only way for those who have truly to understand the role of humane learning.

3. George Bernard Shaw:

   The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.

4. House Democratic leaders:

   It would be the height of irresponsibility and political cynicism for Senate Republicans to now reject the same legislation they have already supported.

5. Leon Trotsky:

   Life is not an easy matter. You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.