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Originally Posted by TheBig3
Do we have cynics? I guess I'm in the wrong threads. I'd grant you that we have vicious people, but I don't think of them as necessarily pessimistic.
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I'm thinking of cynic as something along the lines of this Merriam Webster definition :
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Originally Posted by Merriam Webster
2: a faultfinding captious critic; especially : one who believes that human conduct is motivated wholly by self-interest
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Where captious is defined like this :
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Originally Posted by Merriam Webster
1: marked by an often ill-natured inclination to stress faults and raise objections <captious critics>
2: calculated to confuse, entrap, or entangle in argument
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And so I think many if not most can be said to (often) behave like cynics on forums, me included. But never Erica from what I can remember.