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• Of a pessimistic disposition about the world
• Sneeringly doubtful
• Sceptical, mocking
• Mocking disorganised chaplaincy — helpers and priests initially made to leave
• Contemptuous, mocking
• Hard-boiled egg's first dropped in clean, icy liquid
• Trendy, wearing finely-woven cape turned up, but unsentimental?
• Bitter controversy on both sides at tax payable — albeit cut back
• Likely to depreciate
• Mocking; sceptical
• Like Ambrose Bierce, famously
• Believing the worst of human nature and motives