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sanguinely

adverb as in hopefully

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She sanguinely referred to the damaging internecine warring as “exuberance.”

It was as if the build-a-thorax gene had incorrectly been commanded in the wrong compartment—and had sanguinely launched its command.

A persistent critic of “big digital,” Thomson warned that Western leadership has been “sanguinely supine” for too long toward companies such as Facebook and Google, the Morning Herald reported.

The day after the concert, the Times critic Olin Downes sanguinely concluded that “there is a degree of ostentation in this music which would be funny if it were not so vulgar.”

They sanguinely accepted the fact that Comey had upstaged the president's first foray onto the campaign trail, saying it was worth it to have the investigation complete.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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