Synonyms of cherry-picked

cherry-picked 1 of 2

adjective

as in selected

singled out from a number or group as more to one's liking

claims that the committee used only cherry-picked facts in their report on the state of the nation's economy

Synonyms & Similar Words

• selected
• select
• favorite
• preferred
• handpicked
• chosen
• favored
• picked
• elect
• of choice
• choice
• first-line
• fashionable
• culled
• screened
• exclusive
• winnowed (out)
• weeded (out)
• picked over

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• average
• common
• ordinary
• commonplace
• run-of-the-mill

cherry-picked

2 of 2

verb

past tense of cherry-pick

as in picked

to decide to accept (someone or something) from a group of possibilities

cherry-picked the spacious corner office for his corporate fief

Synonyms & Similar Words

• selected
• picked
• chose
• took
• named
• elected
• preferred
• culled
• handpicked
• designated
• singled (out)
• tagged
• opted (for)
• nominated
• adopted
• accepted
• appointed
• tapped
• preselected
• marked
• set
• embraced
• fixed
• settled (on or upon)
• tabbed
• espoused

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• rejected
• refused
• declined
• turned down
• repudiated
• discarded
• disapproved
• spurned
• jettisoned
• negatived
• threw out
• threw away

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of cherry-picked

Verb

This isn’t news, but Trump carefully cherry-picked his way around it. — Tom Nichols, The Atlantic, 17 July 2026

That youthful presence feels almost too current, as the movie’s satire focuses disproportionately on genre discourse cherry-picked from just the last few years. — Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 4 June 2026

Bianco argued that crime data put out by the state has been cherry-picked by liberals to make law enforcement look bad. — Hailey Wang, Los Angeles Times, 9 May 2026

Now that Mozilla has revealed a dozen of them, the same critics will surely claim they too were cherry-picked and conceal less accurate results. — Dan Goodin, ArsTechnica, 7 May 2026

Grimes said that the defense cherry-picked a series of events from years ago to paint a picture that Dowling conspired with Randazzo and Jones, but that the evidence presented did not show with certainty that is what happened. — ABC News, 17 Mar. 2026

In 2003, the intelligence on Saddam Hussein’s nuclear program was cherry-picked and false. — Trudy Rubin, Twin Cities, 6 Mar. 2026

Yes, these stats are cherry-picked. — Mike Finger, San Antonio Express-News, 2 Mar. 2026

Rather quickly, the bears came out and presumed that Blue Owl cherry-picked the best loans and sold most of them to the three arms-length investors and the rest to the captive insurance company. — Jim Cramer, CNBC, 1 Mar. 2026