cynicism

Preposition: about

• politics: In an age of cynicism about politics, this cannot be emphasized too strongly.
• politician: This has bred a cynicism about politicians who seem indifferent or even hostile to their feelings.
• process: Broken promises only lead to cynicism about the political process.
• government: Well, cynicism about the Government isn't the answer.

Preposition: of

world: SFX: This is a reach here, but did his departure in that universe trigger the cynicism of the world he returns to?

Converse of object

• overcome: Sometimes we have to overcome cynicism from the people we meet.
• breed: This has bred a cynicism about politicians who seem indifferent or even hostile to their feelings.
• grow: That's the top priority, particularly against the background of growing cynicism in the sector over the lack of progress on funding reform.
• avoid: What do such people do to avoid cynicism, or despair, and to try to give their lives some sense of meaning?
• increase: It should cause no surprise that such tactics increase public cynicism.
• have: This album has languid, melancholic cynicism oozing out of all twelve solid tracks.

Adjective modifier

• world-weary: We could resign ourselves to them with world-weary cynicism.
• corrosive: You do not have to look far to see this kind of corrosive cynicism at hand.
• utter: It is no longer convenient, so they drop it with utter cynicism.
• widespread: Widespread cynicism against politics could return the man in the white suit to the green benches.
• bitter: Robin Grant | 16:09, Friday 4 March 2005 comment That Tony Blair NHS " letter " oozes bitter cynicism.
• deep: The groups certainly reveal deep cynicism about the political process among the great British public.

Noun used with modifier

• voter: Far more drastic action is needed to address the underlying problem of voter cynicism - greater localism is the only effective remedy.
• breed: Grand summit pledges that turn into creative accounting breed cynicism.
• postmodern: I believe in the critical potential of music as a living cultural practice and reject the pessimistic postmodern cynicism of the 1980s.