pessimistically
Example Sentences
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The dark sides of our country made us see ourselves pessimistically.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026
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
Let’s pessimistically assume that we are still in the worst timeline, and Pangaea Ultima is a truly infernal place.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 17, 2023
The Mariners manager wasn’t trying to be pessimistically prescient or trying to hedge future failure.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 5, 2023
"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 J. W. Duffield
