Sample sentences for PESSIMISTIC

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expecting that things will turn out badly; or focusing on the bad part of things

I find the pessimist to be, if not exactly pleasant, then at least sincere.
Christopher Orlet

I've gotten to be a terrible pessimist about things.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -- The Great Gatsby
He was among the first thinkers of Europe to overcome the pessimism which godlessness generally brings in its wake.
Nietzsche, Friedrich -- Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book For All And None
I think you're giving way to pessimism.
Tolstoy, Leo -- Anna Karenina
This long sickness of pessimism is too well known to most of us to be detailed here.
London, Jack -- John Barleycorn
...floundered into the morass of pessimism.
London, Jack -- The Valley of the Moon
I no longer possess the courage of my pessimism.
Ian McEwan -- Atonement
You know, for someone who got brought back to life, you sure are pessimistic.
John Corey Whaley -- Nogin
And you—why, once you were an old pessimist!
Zane Grey -- The Man of the Forest
JACQUES is heard to say in a feeble voice:] JACQUES: And pessimists!
Eugene Ionesco -- The Future Is in Eggs
It was an end that no prophet had ever foreseen-an end that repudiated optimism and pessimism alike.
Arthur C. Clarke -- Childhood's End
Perhaps I am a pessimist, but you have agreed to forgive me.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- The Brothers Karamazov
Every endeavor is at some point troubled by pessimists.
Dean Koontz -- Sole Survivor
Quite often social contrariness and a generally pessimistic outlook are observed.
Susanna Kaysen -- Girl Interrupted
But this did not mean they would vote for him, and Thomas was pessimistic.
David McCullough -- John Adams
Raoul, with pessimistic foreboding, was convinced that there were only girls next door.
Kate Chopin -- The Awakening
I began to hope that I had been overly pessimistic, that we might be able to live in Mansfield in an atmosphere of peace and understanding after all.
John Howard Griffin -- Black Like Me
By the window, even Bert, pessimist of pessimists, was smiling.
Sarah Dessen -- The Truth About Forever
I like it when pessimism goes unrewarded," Jeb mused.
Stephenie Meyer -- The Host
CHAPTER 13 — THE PESSIMIST AND THE OPTIMIST.
Arundhati Roy -- The God of Small Things

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