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

Their relationship, she said pessimistically, will probably end.

From Washington Post • Jan. 1, 2023

Yet one could be forgiven for pessimistically siding with Wood.

From Scientific American • Dec. 8, 2020

"The chances are though," said Tom pessimistically, "that something has happened to delay him and he won't be on this train at all, but on the one that comes in to-morrow morning."

From Bert Wilson on the Gridiron by Duffield, J. W.