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pessimistic
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Not Without My Daughter
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I realized that I was growing more pessimistic, more bitter, more frantic with each passing day.†
On and on I went, the repetition of the task helping to pass the dreary time, but also promoting a sense of pessimism.†

pessimism = expectation that things will turn out badly
I set the dials at 1-1-7 and pushed pessimistically at the buttons.†
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Many people expressed the pessimistic opinion that the government had run out of ammunition.†
But Hamid was pessimistic.†

Definitions:

(1) (pessimistic)
expecting that things will turn out badly; or focusing on the bad part of things
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)