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

On April 7, 1793, Tobias Lear, in conversation with Jefferson, spoke pessimistically of the affairs of the country.

From The Book of Courage by Faris, John Thomson