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This pessimism persisted, thanks in part to the continual warnings by experts and many in government that terrorist networks were growing, along with the chances of another attack.

Worldwide economic pessimism brought on by concerns over the delta variant is sending large amounts of capital to the sidelines.

I honestly don’t know what to believe, but the tension builds in my mind every day as I try to survive pessimism.

As I answered his questions, at times tinged with irony, anguish enveloped my head in a balloon of pessimism and nerves.

Economic historian Robert Gordon calls himself “the prophet of pessimism.”

In reality,” Francis said, “theatrical severity and sterile pessimism are often symptoms of fear and insecurity.

My pessimism leads me to fight harder, or try to understand how I can do it differently.

Indeed, in some surveys pessimism about the next generation stands at an all-time high.

This pessimism—for all the discussion on campuses about “white privilege”—is even more deeply seated among young whites.

This pessimism is particularly intense among white working class voters, and large sections of the middle class.

Which simple sentence contains more wisdom than all the pessimism of the King of kings.

The disease of pessimism springs never from real troubles, which it braces men to bear, which it delights men to bear well.

If a fervent desire to help Man, instead of wasting time in prayer to "God," is pessimism, I am a pessimist.

Is the use of a danger signal at a hazardous crossing, for the purpose of preventing disaster, pessimism?

Though his pessimism be in great part born of his climate, it has had a very real effect upon his statecraft.

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On this page you'll find 34 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to pessimism, such as: cynicism, despair, distrust, gloom, grief, and hopelessness.

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

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