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- a cynic who believes that nobody does a good deed without expecting something in return
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Cynic
How an ancient philosophical movement devoted to the pursuit of virtue came to describe eye-rolling criticism.
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“Cynic.” The Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster Inc., https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cynic. Accessed 25 January 2020.
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The first known use of cynic was in 1542
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