English-French translations for cynical

• cynique
  C'est peut-être cynique, mais véridique. That is maybe cynical if truthful.
  Un tel point de vue est cynique et inhumain. Such a view is cynical and inhuman.
  Je considère cela comme une approche cynique. I regard this as a cynical approach.

Definition of cynical

• Of or relating to the Cynics, a sect of Ancient Greek philosophers who believed virtue to be the only good and self-control to be the only means of achieving virtue

Related words

• cynically
• cynicality
• behave cynically