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sanguine
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  • You weren't so sanguine two days ago.  (source)
    sanguine = confidently optimistic
  • I presume that the sanguine temperament itself and the...  (source)
    sanguine = confidently optimistic and cheerful
  • to find his way through the sanguine labyrinth of passion through which he was wandering.  (source)
    sanguine = optimistic and cheerful
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  • ...he was most earnest in hoping, and sanguine in believing, that it would be a match at last,  (source)
    sanguine = optimistic
  • I had never actually met the boy, though I thought I could see him easily in his mother, whose sanguinity and resolve I admired without bound.†  (source)
  • Mrs. Bates was engaged to spend the evening at Hartfield, James had due notice, and he sanguinely hoped that neither dear little Henry nor dear little John would have any thing the matter with them, while dear Emma were gone.†  (source)
  • And at around 6:25, that dark humor which had seemed at dawn to be the very foundation of Emile's soul, would become irreversibly sanguine when the first order was delivered to his kitchen.†  (source)
  • I helped myself to green beans, trying to look more sanguine than I felt.†  (source)
  • Harry, who did not feel as sanguine as he had pretended when reassuring Hermione, was glad to reach the gate and the slippery pavement.†  (source)
  • Sanguine.†  (source)
  • Katherine's reaction to their destination had been surprisingly sanguine: Where better to find One True God?†  (source)
  • Danny himself was more sanguine; if Daddy thought the bug would make this one last trip, then probably it would.†  (source)
  • Gulab was sanguine.†  (source)
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