The Devil's Dictionary: Cynic

Updated May 14, 2020 | Infoplease Staff
by Ambrose Bierce
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CYNIC

-n.

A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be. Hence the custom among the Scythians of plucking out a cynic's eyes to improve his vision.

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