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  • Her outlook on the future was quite pessimistic, as she worried about the economy and the environment.
    pessimistic = expecting that things will turn out badly
  • This long sickness of pessimism is too well known to most of us to be detailed here.†  (source)
  • ...floundered into the morass of pessimism.†  (source)
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  • He was among the first thinkers of Europe to overcome the pessimism which godlessness generally brings in its wake.†  (source)
  • I think you're giving way to pessimism.†  (source)
  • This will be a nuisance if they run out of food and have to eat one, X has concluded in his pessimistic Scottish way.  (source)
    pessimistic = expecting that things will turn out badly
  • Where he was a pessimist, I was an optimist, and there was no sense in scaring people with his theories.  (source)
    pessimist = someone who expects the worst
  • [JACQUES is heard to say in a feeble voice:] JACQUES: And pessimists!  (source)
    pessimists = people who expect things will turn out badly; or who focus on the bad part of things
  • "That's about as bad a witness as you'll find," he remarked pessimistically.†  (source)
  • More pessimistic than black Americans, whose material prospects continue to lag behind those of whites.  (source)
    pessimistic = with an expectation that things will turn out badly
  • What are you, a pessimist?  (source)
    pessimist = someone who expects the worst; or who focuses on the bad part of things
  • Optimists and pessimists—not to mention the realists—air their opinions with unflagging energy, and as with everything else, they're all certain that they have a monopoly on the truth.†  (source)
    pessimists = people who expect the worst; or who focus on the bad part of things
  • "Bad business," said Follonsbee, shaking his head pessimistically.†  (source)
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