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Michael-F
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cynical can mean pessimistic or doubting of something
Dubious can mean untrustworthy/unreliable or doubting of something
The rickety bridge can appear dubious OR you can look at the rickety bridge with a dubious eye.
They can both mean “to doubt someone” but the sense of the word is slightly different, “cynical” has a sense of doubting pessimistically, while dubious is doubting something hesitantly
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