pessimistically
Example Sentences
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Today’s lower numbers aren’t evidence that we lack faith in true love’s existence – though that’s pessimistically prevalent these days among singles – but of wedding-driven reality TV’s expansion.
From Salon • Jan. 5, 2024
The Mariners manager wasn’t trying to be pessimistically prescient or trying to hedge future failure.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 5, 2023
Yet one could be forgiven for pessimistically siding with Wood.
From Scientific American • Dec. 8, 2020
That Mr. Kelley offered no way to integrate those opposites is a large part of what makes his art so unsettlingly, pessimistically provocative.
From New York Times • Sep. 10, 2015
“I was afraid you wouldn’t,” pessimistically grumbled Docile, but here he smiled hopefully.
From The Orphan by Mulford, Clarence E.
