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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It can not be an oversanguine estimate to predict that in less than ten years, of which one-half have elapsed, the receipts will have been more than doubled.
From A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 2, part 2: John Quincy Adams by James D. (James Daniel) Richardson
So my search was carried now to Geneva, and it might be possible to come upon my people there, although I was not oversanguine.
From The Passenger from Calais by Arthur Griffiths
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
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
There is one thing of which the young or oversanguine or heedless should be warned.
From The Mystic Will A Method of Developing and Strengthening the Faculties of the Mind, through the Awakened Will, by a Simple, Scientific Process Possible to Any Person of Ordinary Intelligence by Charles Godfrey Leland
