English words for 'Cynical and resentful.'
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adj
- Cynical and resentful.
- marked by strong resentment or cynicism
- Harsh, piercing, acerbic or stinging.
- Hateful or hostile.
- Having an acrid taste (usually from a basic substance).
- very difficult to accept or bear
- expressive of severe grief or regret
- proceeding from or exhibiting great hostility or animosity
- causing a sharp and acrid taste experience
- causing a sharply painful or stinging sensation; used especially of cold
- harsh or corrosive in tone
adv
noun
- (usually in the plural bitters) A liquid or powder, made from bitter herbs, used in mixed drinks or as a tonic.
- A type of beer heavily flavored with hops.
- (nautical) A turn of a cable about the bitts.
- (computing, informal, in combination) A hardware system whose architecture is based around units of the specified number of bits (binary digits).
- the taste experience when quinine or coffee is taken into the mouth
- the property of having a harsh unpleasant taste
- English term for a dry sharp-tasting ale with strong flavor of hops (usually on draft)
verb
adj
- bitter or scornful
- showing a brooding ill humor
- (comparable) Of a setting: depressing, dull, gloomy.
- (entomology) Belonging to or resembling butterflies of the family Saturnidae
- (comparable) Of a person: having a tendency to be cold and gloomy
- (not comparable, pathology) Caused or affected by lead poisoning (saturnism).
noun
- a disdainful grimace
- marine eellike mostly bottom-dwelling fishes of northern seas
- catfish common in eastern United States
- One's facial expression when pouting.
- (rare) Any of various fishes such as the hornpout (Ameiurus nebulosus, the brown bullhead), the pouting (Trisopterus luscus) and the eelpouts (Zoarcidae).
- Alternative form of poult.
- A fit of sulking or sullenness.
verb
- be in a huff and display one's displeasure
- make a sad face and thrust out one's lower lip
- (intransitive) To be or pretend to be ill-tempered; to sulk.
- (intransitive) To push out one's lips.
- (transitive) To say while pouting.
- (Scotland) To shoot poults.
- (intransitive) To thrust itself outward; to be prominent.
noun
- a cynical feeling of distrust
- (uncountable) A distrustful attitude.
- (countable) A scornfully pessimistic comment or act.
- (uncountable, philosophy) A school of thought in the philosophy of Ancient Greece.
- (uncountable) An emotion of jaded negativity, or a general distrust of the integrity or professed motives of other people. Cynicism can manifest itself by frustration, disillusionment and distrust in regard to organizations, authorities and other aspects of society, often due to previous bad experience. Cynics often view others as motivated solely by disguised self-interest.
verb
- frown with displeasure
- (intransitive, by extension) To look gloomy, dark, or threatening; to lower.
- (transitive) To look at or repel with a scowl or a frown.
- (transitive) To express by a scowl.
- (intransitive) To wrinkle the brows, as in frowning or displeasure; to put on a frowning look; to look sour, sullen, severe, or angry.
noun
prep_phrase
noun
verb
- (intransitive) To frown; to look sullen.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To be dark, gloomy, and threatening, as clouds; of the sky: to be covered with dark and threatening clouds; to show threatening signs of approach, as a tempest.
- make lower or quieter
- look angry or sullen, wrinkle one's forehead, as if to signal disapproval
- set lower
adj
- Bitterly or jadedly distrustful or contemptuous; mocking.
- Of or relating to the belief that human actions are motivated only or primarily by base desires or selfishness.
- Skeptical of the integrity, sincerity, or motives of others.
- Showing contempt for accepted moral standards by one's actions.
- (medicine, rare) Like the actions of a snarling dog, especially in reference to facial nerve paralysis.
- believing the worst of human nature and motives; having a sneering disbelief in e.g. selflessness of others
verb
noun
adj
- (figuratively) Sour-tempered.
- (music) Denoting a musical genre that is a distortion (as if hallucinogenic) of an existing genre, as in acid house, acid jazz, acid rock.
- Of or pertaining to an acid; acidic.
- Sour, sharp, or biting to the taste; tart; having the taste of vinegar.
- having the characteristics of an acid
- harsh or corrosive in tone
- being sour to the taste
noun
- Any compound that can accept a pair of electrons to form a covalent bond; a Lewis acid.
- Any corrosive substance.
- (uncountable, slang) LSD, lysergic acid diethylamide.
- Any compound that easily donates protons to a base; a Brønsted acid.
- Any compound which yields H+ ions (protons) when dissolved in water; an Arrhenius acid.
- A sour substance.
- street name for lysergic acid diethylamide
- any of various water-soluble compounds having a sour taste and capable of turning litmus red and reacting with a base to form a salt
noun
noun
- An attitude or a feeling of distaste or aversion.
- (Internet) An individual vote showing disapproval of, or lack of support for, something posted on the Internet.
- (usually in the plural) Something that a person dislikes (has or feels aversion to).
- a feeling of aversion or antipathy
- an inclination to withhold approval from some person or group
verb
noun
- an angry and disagreeable mood
- paint made by mixing the pigments with water and a binder
- a method of painting in which the pigments are mixed with water and a binder; used for painting posters or murals or stage scenery
- any of various infectious viral diseases of animals
- a painting created with paint that is made by mixing the pigments with water and a binder
- (countable) A painting produced with this kind of paint.
- A glue-based paint.
- (veterinary medicine, pathology) A viral disease of animals, such as dogs and cats, characterised by fever, coughing and catarrh.
verb
- paint with distemper
- To intoxicate.
- To derange the functions of, whether bodily, mental, or spiritual; to disorder; to disease.
- To paint using distemper.
- To mix (colours) in the way of distemper.
- To temper or mix unduly; to make disproportionate; to change the due proportions of.
- To deprive of temper or moderation; to disturb; to ruffle; to make disaffected, ill-humoured, or malignant.
adj
adj
verb
noun
- Bittersweetness.
- Bittersweet nightshade (Solanum dulcamara).
- A variety of apple with a bittersweet taste.
- (US) A vine, of the genus Celastrus, having small orange fruit that open to reveal red seeds.
- A pinkish-orange color. Any color in between scarlet and orange.
- Any variety of clam in the family Glycymerididae
- twining shrub of North America having yellow capsules enclosing scarlet seeds
- poisonous perennial Old World vine having violet flowers and oval coral-red berries; widespread weed in North America
adj
noun
- a disdainful grimace
- marine eellike mostly bottom-dwelling fishes of northern seas
- catfish common in eastern United States
- One's facial expression when pouting.
- (rare) Any of various fishes such as the hornpout (Ameiurus nebulosus, the brown bullhead), the pouting (Trisopterus luscus) and the eelpouts (Zoarcidae).
- Alternative form of poult.
- A fit of sulking or sullenness.
verb
- be in a huff and display one's displeasure
- make a sad face and thrust out one's lower lip
- (intransitive) To be or pretend to be ill-tempered; to sulk.
- (intransitive) To push out one's lips.
- (transitive) To say while pouting.
- (Scotland) To shoot poults.
- (intransitive) To thrust itself outward; to be prominent.
noun
- a cynical feeling of distrust
- (uncountable) A distrustful attitude.
- (countable) A scornfully pessimistic comment or act.
- (uncountable, philosophy) A school of thought in the philosophy of Ancient Greece.
- (uncountable) An emotion of jaded negativity, or a general distrust of the integrity or professed motives of other people. Cynicism can manifest itself by frustration, disillusionment and distrust in regard to organizations, authorities and other aspects of society, often due to previous bad experience. Cynics often view others as motivated solely by disguised self-interest.
noun
verb
- (intransitive) To frown; to look sullen.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To be dark, gloomy, and threatening, as clouds; of the sky: to be covered with dark and threatening clouds; to show threatening signs of approach, as a tempest.
- make lower or quieter
- look angry or sullen, wrinkle one's forehead, as if to signal disapproval
- set lower
noun
noun
- An attitude or a feeling of distaste or aversion.
- (Internet) An individual vote showing disapproval of, or lack of support for, something posted on the Internet.
- (usually in the plural) Something that a person dislikes (has or feels aversion to).
- a feeling of aversion or antipathy
- an inclination to withhold approval from some person or group
verb
noun
- an angry and disagreeable mood
- paint made by mixing the pigments with water and a binder
- a method of painting in which the pigments are mixed with water and a binder; used for painting posters or murals or stage scenery
- any of various infectious viral diseases of animals
- a painting created with paint that is made by mixing the pigments with water and a binder
- (countable) A painting produced with this kind of paint.
- A glue-based paint.
- (veterinary medicine, pathology) A viral disease of animals, such as dogs and cats, characterised by fever, coughing and catarrh.
verb
- paint with distemper
- To intoxicate.
- To derange the functions of, whether bodily, mental, or spiritual; to disorder; to disease.
- To paint using distemper.
- To mix (colours) in the way of distemper.
- To temper or mix unduly; to make disproportionate; to change the due proportions of.
- To deprive of temper or moderation; to disturb; to ruffle; to make disaffected, ill-humoured, or malignant.
noun
- Bittersweetness.
- Bittersweet nightshade (Solanum dulcamara).
- A variety of apple with a bittersweet taste.
- (US) A vine, of the genus Celastrus, having small orange fruit that open to reveal red seeds.
- A pinkish-orange color. Any color in between scarlet and orange.
- Any variety of clam in the family Glycymerididae
- twining shrub of North America having yellow capsules enclosing scarlet seeds
- poisonous perennial Old World vine having violet flowers and oval coral-red berries; widespread weed in North America
adj
verb
- frown with displeasure
- (intransitive, by extension) To look gloomy, dark, or threatening; to lower.
- (transitive) To look at or repel with a scowl or a frown.
- (transitive) To express by a scowl.
- (intransitive) To wrinkle the brows, as in frowning or displeasure; to put on a frowning look; to look sour, sullen, severe, or angry.
noun
verb
noun
noun
verb
- (intransitive) To frown; to look sullen.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To be dark, gloomy, and threatening, as clouds; of the sky: to be covered with dark and threatening clouds; to show threatening signs of approach, as a tempest.
- make lower or quieter
- look angry or sullen, wrinkle one's forehead, as if to signal disapproval
- set lower
adj
- Cynical and resentful.
- marked by strong resentment or cynicism
- Harsh, piercing, acerbic or stinging.
- Hateful or hostile.
- Having an acrid taste (usually from a basic substance).
- very difficult to accept or bear
- expressive of severe grief or regret
- proceeding from or exhibiting great hostility or animosity
- causing a sharp and acrid taste experience
- causing a sharply painful or stinging sensation; used especially of cold
- harsh or corrosive in tone
adv
noun
- (usually in the plural bitters) A liquid or powder, made from bitter herbs, used in mixed drinks or as a tonic.
- A type of beer heavily flavored with hops.
- (nautical) A turn of a cable about the bitts.
- (computing, informal, in combination) A hardware system whose architecture is based around units of the specified number of bits (binary digits).
- the taste experience when quinine or coffee is taken into the mouth
- the property of having a harsh unpleasant taste
- English term for a dry sharp-tasting ale with strong flavor of hops (usually on draft)
verb
adj
- bitter or scornful
- showing a brooding ill humor
- (comparable) Of a setting: depressing, dull, gloomy.
- (entomology) Belonging to or resembling butterflies of the family Saturnidae
- (comparable) Of a person: having a tendency to be cold and gloomy
- (not comparable, pathology) Caused or affected by lead poisoning (saturnism).
adj
- Bitterly or jadedly distrustful or contemptuous; mocking.
- Of or relating to the belief that human actions are motivated only or primarily by base desires or selfishness.
- Skeptical of the integrity, sincerity, or motives of others.
- Showing contempt for accepted moral standards by one's actions.
- (medicine, rare) Like the actions of a snarling dog, especially in reference to facial nerve paralysis.
- believing the worst of human nature and motives; having a sneering disbelief in e.g. selflessness of others
adj
- (figuratively) Sour-tempered.
- (music) Denoting a musical genre that is a distortion (as if hallucinogenic) of an existing genre, as in acid house, acid jazz, acid rock.
- Of or pertaining to an acid; acidic.
- Sour, sharp, or biting to the taste; tart; having the taste of vinegar.
- having the characteristics of an acid
- harsh or corrosive in tone
- being sour to the taste
noun
- Any compound that can accept a pair of electrons to form a covalent bond; a Lewis acid.
- Any corrosive substance.
- (uncountable, slang) LSD, lysergic acid diethylamide.
- Any compound that easily donates protons to a base; a Brønsted acid.
- Any compound which yields H+ ions (protons) when dissolved in water; an Arrhenius acid.
- A sour substance.
- street name for lysergic acid diethylamide
- any of various water-soluble compounds having a sour taste and capable of turning litmus red and reacting with a base to form a salt