Cynically

adv. [f. prec. + -LY².] In a cynical way; after the manner of a cynic.

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1605. Bacon, Adv. Learn., II. xxi. § 9. Fraudes … and vices … handled … rather in a Satyre and Cinicaly, then seriously and wisely.

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1614. Bp. Hall, Recoll. Treat., 501. Not Cynically unsociable.

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1789. Mrs. Piozzi, Journ. France, I. 82. I was … feeling … cynically disposed.

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1856. Thackeray, Christmas Bks. (1872), 43. Our street from the little nook … whence I and a fellow lodger … cynically observe it.

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