The House was furious at the cynical manner in which she'd twisted its rules and procedures to suit her own ends.

However, he added, if a mayor were to do so in a baldly cynical manner, the courts would most likely intervene.

The term is often used in a slightly derogatory or cynical manner, although it is also used as a compliment.

Certainly it would be even worse to accept credit for something achieved accidentally, something you had brought about in the most cynical and flippant manner.

Newman said in a somewhat cynical manner, so much so that he surprised himself.

But he manages to combine his hereditary trade with the job of a private eye, which enables him to sell gossip in a most cynical manner.

Her outwardly cynical manner concealed a warm heart, and she was devoted to those she loved.

He was a tall genial man, with a casual off-hand, cynical manner that his patients found very stimulating.

These events are usually presented in a humorous, ironic, cynical and wearily disdainful manner.

This plays down in an incredibly cynical manner the brutality which has taken place in Libya during the last three weeks.