"It's a cynical joke," he said at a Washington news conference.

New York's fourth-largest city does not have to be the punch line to a cynical joke.

My rational commander relies on hope, dreams, and cynical jokes to relieve the tension in the rest of me.

The analysis recalls a cynical joke among police experts: For the police, any crime statistics are good crime statistics.

Gregory Curtis of Texas Monthly said that, after the police raid in 1989, the names of the apartments sounded like "cynical jokes".

Twitter is banned in China but lively debate, cynical jokes and criticisms of official corruption spread rapidly on home-grown services such as Sina Weibo.

There's a cynical joke among journalists that three points make a trend, because any reporter can pretend that three arbitrary anecdotes or factoids represent a pattern.

The self-proclaimed hypochondriac became popular for his cynical jokes, cruel remarks and wry intellectual wit.

One cynical joke is that Scotch can be used only for things which can be bought, such as whisky, eggs and politicians.