pessimistic
Example Sentences
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Among all Americans, some 77% have pessimistic views of the economy, leaving fewer than one-quarter with an upbeat outlook, polling by the Journal and NORC, a research group, found last year.
Americans have rarely been more pessimistic about the future… If this is America’s Golden Age, it doesn’t appear that people are seeing it.
From Salon
Results were worse than what even the most pessimistic investors had expected, JPMorgan analysts wrote in a note to clients.
The divergence between capital and labor helps explain the disconnect between a buoyant economy and pessimistic households.
Investors’ tendency is to be “too optimistic at some times and too pessimistic at others,” the May 1900 Wall Street Journal column read.
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