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Adjective: cynical  si-ni-kul
  1. Believing the worst of human nature and motives; having a sneering disbelief in e.g. selflessness of others
    "We live in a cynical age"
    - misanthropic, misanthropical

See also: cynic, cynically, distrustful

Encyclopedia: Cynical