sanguine
adjective
cheerfully optimistic, sometimes to the point of seeming complacent, oblivious, or naive.
oversanguine
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a word derived from
sanguine.
Example Sentences
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He is foolishly oversanguine who predicts an easy victory over such a people, intrenched amidst mountains and hills.
From The Citizen-Soldier or, Memoirs of a Volunteer by John Beatty
Alan was not oversanguine, although Fred Skane declared Bandmaster's task was easier than The Duke's.
From The Rider in Khaki A Novel by Nat Gould
National pride and oversanguine expectations prevented a calm judgment on the existing state of Europe, and on the impossibility of Holland, in its ancient limits, maintaining the influence which it was hoped it would acquire.
From Holland The History of the Netherlands by Thomas Colley Grattan
She suspected that he, like all reformers, was oversanguine, demanding the work of three generations from one, and expecting a single man to give the result of a thousand.
From The Heritage of the Kurts, Volume I (of 2) by Bj?rnstjerne Bj?rnson
Suppose you are by nature rather oversanguine or overdespondent, and you make no genuine attempt to evolve that nature into poise.
From Applied Psychology for Nurses by Mary F. Porter
