How to Use pessimist in a Sentence
pessimist
noun-
Note to viewers: Don’t let the pessimists get you down.
— Dennis Kneale, WSJ, 25 Mar. 2018 -
Two neighbors in their 80s, Raisa and Svitlana, strolling through the snow in Kharkiv, were among the pessimists.
— Carlotta Gall Lynsey Addario, New York Times, 25 Feb. 2024 -
The pessimist says that the Patriots simply aren’t good enough to go on the road and beat a tough team.
— BostonGlobe.com, 4 Nov. 2019 -
Yong: The pessimist, and maybe the realist, in me is not hopeful.
— James Hamblin, The Atlantic, 31 Mar. 2020 -
But a few pessimists maintain that the premise of the question itself is wrong.
— Mikhail Zygar, Foreign Affairs, 28 June 2024 -
But Graves isn’t a pessimist about the country’s future.
— Kent Somers, azcentral, 2 June 2020 -
In truth, though, Scott-Morgan would have had good reason to be a pessimist.
— Susan Orlean, The New Yorker, 26 July 2022 -
There is always something for naysayers and pessimists to point at to make the case that all is not well.
— Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 9 Feb. 2024 -
Yet in his own life, Prince was anything but a cynic or a pessimist.
— Todd S. Purdum, The Atlantic, 1 Aug. 2019 -
What the optimists and pessimists agree on is that the business model has to change.
— Boris Kachka, Vulture, 16 May 2024 -
For two weeks since late January, the pessimists had the upper hand.
— Bloomberg.com, 5 Mar. 2018 -
There are hints the pessimists may be correct (see Briefing).
— The Economist, 1 Aug. 2019 -
Sales figures from the second quarter are now in, and the pessimists will be eating crow.
— Peter Douglas, The Mercury News, 21 July 2024 -
In a win against Ole Miss, Auburn gave both the optimists and pessimists something to zero in on.
— John Talty | [email protected], al, 3 Nov. 2019 -
At the time, Rank may have sounded like a pessimist: Many summer camps hadn’t even been canceled yet.
— Josefin Dolsten, sun-sentinel.com, 4 Aug. 2020 -
But the fall never happened–and the pessimists have quietly moved the cliff edge into 2024.
— Mike Sommers, Fortune Europe, 1 Feb. 2024 -
But the fall never happened–and the pessimists have quietly moved the cliff edge into 2024.
— Richard Torrenzano, Fortune, 18 Jan. 2024 -
Keep in mind that this is the worst-case scenario offered by a relative pessimist.
— Tyler Cowen, Twin Cities, 15 Nov. 2019 -
Dollar pessimists often point to the fall in the dollar’s share of global reserves ...
— Jon Hartley, National Review, 30 June 2023 -
Roubini has a reputation on Wall Street as a bit of a pessimist.
— Steve Mollman, Fortune, 26 Nov. 2022 -
But pessimists have been citing similar cracks for well over a year.
— Ben Casselman, New York Times, 14 Feb. 2024 -
The doleful pessimist would also point to the rise of nationalism.
— Akshat Rathi, Quartz, 26 Sep. 2019 -
The pessimist would suggest the Packers are playing with fire and that lack of dominance will catch up with them in the postseason.
— Rob Reischel, Forbes, 26 Dec. 2021 -
The pessimist might see it as a defibrillating jolt to bring the latest Silo in line with the other three.
— Mike Sutter, San Antonio Express-News, 8 Mar. 2018 -
This Augustine was not a pessimist but a champion of hope.
— Aaron Alexander Zubia, WSJ, 4 Nov. 2022 -
However, only the biggest pessimist couldn’t have imaged how bad the Reds would be.
— John Perrotto, Forbes, 17 May 2022 -
Call me a pessimist, but a bathtub with an overflow drain is a tub that’s almost always half empty.
— Jessica Teich, Good Housekeeping, 30 May 2019 -
And a pessimist might further note that failures of leadership lead, in our present, to many of our children being shot.
— Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 22 Aug. 2019 -
Inevitably, a new set of pessimists now voice a fresh worry: that bond yields might go on rising for less welcome reasons.
— The Economist, 12 Apr. 2018 -
The Celtics beat the point spread after losses far more often than the Nets did; the optimists responded to losses far better than the pessimists did.
— Andrew Beaton, WSJ, 2 May 2018
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