Example sentences for: pessimistic

How can you use “pessimistic” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • In a more pessimistic scenario, an emphasis on treatment leads to less effective implementation of prevention.

  • One fraygrant wondered what was so wrong with the society in Brave New World and materialism, but others took exception to such a pessimistic view of life: "We needn't assume the worst."

  • The pessimistic spin: Asia and Latin America are still a mess; U.S. stock valuations are completely out of whack; the Internet investment mania will burst any day now; and the Dow will collapse.

  • The NYT 's main impeachment post-mortem-- pace Janet Hook--is a pessimistic one.

  • As W. Jackson Bate--my choice for the ultimate literary biographer of our time--wrote of Samuel Johnson, Powell's work would allow us to construct a vastly pessimistic vision of the human condition.


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