A skeptical, scornful or pessimistic comment or act.
A distrustful attitude.
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.
Snide remarks or attitude.
The fictional creature of Lewis Carroll's poem, used allusively to refer to fruitless quest or search.
A fluke or unrepeatable result or detection in an experiment.
A graph in which every node has three branches, and the edges cannot be coloured in fewer than four colours without two edges of the same colour meeting at a point.
To express oneself in a snarky fashion.