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
Let’s pessimistically assume that we are still in the worst timeline, and Pangaea Ultima is a truly infernal place.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 17, 2023
The Mariners manager wasn’t trying to be pessimistically prescient or trying to hedge future failure.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 5, 2023
The event was sparsely attended, but Kobach spoke pessimistically to those who had come with passion.
From New York Times ● Jun. 13, 2017
No doubt the young 128 man was even now brooding over the future, planning his fight, pessimistically considering his chances of success.
From The Coming of the Law by Charles Alden Seltzer
