Synonyms:
cynical, misanthropic, misanthropical
Meaning: believing the worst of human nature and motives; having a sneering disbelief in e.g. selflessness of others
Usage examples
The doctor looked as rubicund, as jovial, as cynical as ever.
Benjamin Disraeli attained the cynical sublime when he suggested a monument of gratitude to Judas.
Rose was twenty-one years old, fair, vivacious, educated in a fashionable college, just entering society and already somewhat cynical and indifferent.
"Did you help him to take it, pray, that you identify yourself with the affair so persistently and violently?" demanded Mr. Galloway, in a cynical tone.
Yet, I wonder; is there a single one among all these tired people, or even among the cynical people, who has not had some moment of awe when the thought came stabbing into his mind like a knife: "What a strange thing this life is!