unhopeful

Example Sentences

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What matters, it seems, is not so much whether a person feels hopeful or unhopeful about the future, but how constructively they deal with their emotions.

From Salon • Dec. 1, 2024

Being unhopeful about climate change is so unpopular that I myself, an environment-focused journalist, am fearful of publicly admitting my own pessimistic outlook.

From Salon • Dec. 1, 2024

He remains unhopeful that he’ll have any place in the New Jersey’s system.

From Slate • Dec. 29, 2020

So let me say one unhopeful thing before I say one hopeful thing.

From Slate • Jul. 5, 2017

So he went certain, unhurried, and unhopeful on the way he must go, and the wind of winter bore him to the south.

From "A Wizard of Earthsea" by Ursula K. Le Guin