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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Mao after 1949 has been thoroughly reassessed by historians and is now regarded as a monster by most right-minded people; but views of early Mao—from 1921 until 1949—remain stubbornly rose-tinted.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 13, 2026
His grandmother retold rose-tinted stories of building aircraft equipment during World War II before being forcibly relegated back to her domestic life.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 25, 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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