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pessimistically

  • a word derived from pessimism.
    pessimism
    noun
    the tendency to see, anticipate, or emphasize only bad or undesirable outcomes, results, conditions, problems, etc..
  • a word derived from pessimistic.
    pessimistic
    adjective
    pertaining to or characterized by pessimism or the tendency to expect only bad outcomes; gloomy; joyless; unhopeful.

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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

The Mariners manager wasn’t trying to be pessimistically prescient or trying to hedge future failure.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 5, 2023

Annenberg Inclusion Initiative, and it framed its findings fairly pessimistically.

From New York Times ● Jan. 26, 2023

Yet one could be forgiven for pessimistically siding with Wood.

From Scientific American ● Dec. 8, 2020

“I’ve seen better looking wheels and then again I’ve seen worse,” he decided, pessimistically.

From Across the Mesa by Henry Clarence Pitz