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Feelings of doubt or apprehension about something

Bitterness, harshness or anger in one's feeling or expression

The use of acerbic or ironic language or behavior to mock or convey contempt

The rejection of all religious and moral principles, in the belief that life is meaningless

The state or quality of being testy

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Noun

Feelings of doubt or apprehension about something

world-weariness

negative thinking

mistrustfulness

distrustfulness

lack of confidence

lack of conviction

incredulousness

lack of certainty

disillusionment

unbelievingness

lack of credence

expecting the worst

expectation of worst

expectation of the worst

chip on your shoulder

minimifidianism

a pinch of salt

negative attitude

hatred of mankind

antisocial behaviour

dissatisfaction

lack of enthusiasm

discontentedness

looking on the dark side

looking on the black side

second thoughts

apprehensiveness

procrastination

shilly-shallying

hemming and hawing

inconclusiveness

humming and hawing

questionableness

blowing hot and cold

butterflies in the stomach

reconsideration

questionability

indeterminateness

shillyshallying

lack of resolution

sense of foreboding

sitting on the fence

lack of confidence in

lack of faith in

faint-heartedness

half-heartedness

pins and needles

screaming abdabs

twinge of doubt

pang of conscience

twinge of conscience

unrighteousness

self-consciousness

backwardness in coming forward

pangs of conscience

confusion dilemma

unassertiveness

self-effacement

bone of contention

lack of self-confidence

stalling for time

fear of carrying out an activity

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“The level of cynicism which is brought to many anecdotal accounts used in journalism could equally be leveled at official documentation.”

Noun

Bitterness, harshness or anger in one's feeling or expression

dissatisfaction

acrimoniousness

superciliousness

chip on your shoulder

disillusionment

discontentedness

cantankerousness

wounded feelings

hateful feeling

low boiling point

strong aversion

intense dislike

extreme dislike

evil intentions

righteous anger

mutual hostility

mean-spiritedness

uncharitableness

hardness of heart

sense of injury

more heat than light

uncertain temper

being on the warpath

ill-disposedness

personality conflict

mischievousness

disconsolateness

being rubbed up the wrong way

downheartedness

heavy-heartedness

heaviness of heart

bone of contention

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Noun

The use of acerbic or ironic language or behavior to mock or convey contempt

superciliousness

taking the mickey

pulling someone's chain

underestimation

black humour^UK

matter-of-factness

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Noun

The rejection of all religious and moral principles, in the belief that life is meaningless

lack of conviction

absence of moral values

unbelievingness

incredulousness

unrighteousness

unorthodox opinion

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Noun

The state or quality of being testy

cantankerousness

bad-temperedness

oversensitivity

hypersensitivity

low boiling point

quick-temperedness

hot-temperedness

quarrelsomeness

curmudgeonliness

dissatisfaction

wounded feelings

short-temperedness

uncertain temper

disagreeableness

hot-bloodedness

oversensitiveness

argumentativeness

provocativeness

being rubbed up the wrong way

discontentedness

chip on your shoulder

acrimoniousness

sense of injury

more heat than light

righteous anger

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