rose-tinted
Britishadjective
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Also: rose-coloured. excessively optimistic
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See rose-coloured
Example Sentences
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Your inclination toward dreaming, and how easily you are consumed by it, is your heart’s way of creating not just a gorgeous life for yourself, but a more rose-tinted world for everyone.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026
Nearly a year after wrapping “One Battle,” and as award season draws near, Bauman looks back at his VistaVision experience through rose-tinted lenses.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 12, 2025
She is in favour of measures to get people with physical or mental health conditions into work - but she believes some ministers are using rose-tinted spectacles when assessing the willingness of employers to help.
From BBC ● Jun. 17, 2025
Many of the things we see in high-definition today—wars, poverty, inequality—have been edited out of a rose-tinted view of previous decades.
From Slate ● Nov. 13, 2024
Her back was thunderhead blue, her rose-tinted breast had the brightness of cloud tops.
From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
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