The term post-grunge was meant to be pejorative, suggesting that they were simply musically derivative, or a cynical response to an "authentic" rock movement.

Clearly, conservatives have invited a cynical response to the campaign for high moral standards.

In cynical response, the royalist blancs, who ran the colony, incited their African slaves to revolution.

The Pope's cynical response, scrawled on the back of the legate's letter, was: 'These are things which make me doubt that he believes anything.'

The cynical response is that the head coach of an elite-level program is hardly an appropriate spokesman for the value of a big-time player's educational future.

Ethnic communities complained that this attack on multiculturalism was a cynical response to polls showing Hanson's rising popularity.

Hearing Tracy talk about Weaver in such glowing terms might elicit a cynical response from Yankees fans.

Various lines could be taken as cynical responses to Ono, or to Lennon's audience and music critics.

His lips twisted and she waited for the inevitable cynical response, but surprisingly it didn't come.

The cynical response is that there was a promotion in place for kids to run the bases at Shea after the game.