Random research on "Cynicism"

I was all of sudden curious to know the roots of the word "Cynic" and this is what Google search has to offer:

Definitions of cynical on the Web:

• believing the worst of human nature and motives; having a sneering disbelief in e.g. selflessness of others
  wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn
  
• Cynicism was originally the philosophy of a group of ancient Greeks called the Cynics (main article), founded by Antisthenes.
  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cynical
  
• 1. Believing or showing the belief that people are motivated chiefly by base or selfish concerns; skeptical of the motives of others. 2. Selfishly or callously calculating . 3. Negative or pessimistic, as from world-weariness . 4. Expressing jaded or scornful skepticism or negativity. .
  missbunbun.tripod.com/id7.html
  
• extremely pleasing or agreeable, esp. to the sense of taste or smell.
  www.teach-nology.com/worksheets/language_arts/vocab/seven/quiz/1/

Most interesting of these is en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cynical with even quotes and Greek history on the topic.

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