wishful
Example Sentences
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My mother’s voice knocked me out of my wishful thinking.
From Salon
Maybe that is wishful thinking, but what's clear is that Scotland will go into the Six Nations shed of the sort of expectation they have had to carry in recent seasons.
From BBC
That's an awful lot of wishful thinking, an awful lot of kicking a decision down the road.
From BBC
“A lot of people get into this wishful thinking or hypotheticals” around taking advantage of specific perks, Papadimitriou said.
“I accept there is a degree of wishful thinking,” he says regarding his belief in his painting, which doesn’t make him any less charming a subject for the show.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
