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'Cynical' Play

  • 03-09-2012 12:15am
    #1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 476 ✭✭


    This is really my pet peeve at the moment.

    It is a very common term in describing GAA play over the last couple of years or so. I don't know where it came from (Spillane perhaps?), I k ow exactly what people mean when they say it (sh1t killing time football), but christ on a bike, cynical is the wrong work to use!?
    And I'm someone who generally appreciates language development but it just makes no sense.

    "He played a cynical game" - ...what, he was skeptical as to whether he was playing????? I just don't understand, I hear more people using it every week and I just don't like it


    'Hon Mayo :)


Comments

  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,816 ✭✭✭corny


    Cynical: Showing contempt for accepted standards of honesty or morality by one's actions, especially by actions that exploit the scruples of others.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 537 ✭✭✭ozymandias10


    this is a cynical thread


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